That each is born with differing capacities and potentials is self-evident. Both students and teachers should accept as their right and duty the task of bringing to full fruition these latent potentialities. It is a cause of concern in the nation, among parents and teachers, and in later years among students themselves, that many of our youth fail to achieve that of which they are capable. This is a loss to society and a disappointment to the individual. The purpose of this study is to add to the growing fund of knowledge concerning factors related to this important area of education and the relationship of these factors to life's fulfillment

This thesis describes a computer simulation model for determining effective spares stock levels for recoverable items at Air Force bases and depots. The simulation model is based on the following fundamental inventory theory; whenever a demand arises, it is satisfied from stock on hand, and the quantity equal to that demand is recorded immediately; when a demand exceeds stock on hand, the excess demand is backordered immediately and when item life expires procurement action is initiated at depot level. The resulting product of the model cam be used as a guide for the optimum distribution of available spares or as a computation of the necessary spares which will meet a desired percent fill rate. Outputs from the simulation model will also enable evaluation of the spares level effects as a result of change in other logistic parameters. The purpose of this thesis is two-fold to the extent that it presents: (a) A computer simulation model of an Air Force logistic system; and (b) A discussion of compound Monte-Carlo demand generation involving various analytic failure distributions. The specific nature of the problem to which the simulation model is applied is described and the model construction and output are discussed in detail.

The purpose of this study was to test the usefulness of The Color Book in facilitating interactions between an interviewer and a child. Interviews employing The Color Book were compared with interviews in which no art materials were used. More specifically the question of whether the length of utterances, number of emotional words used and statements about self by the subjects differed between groups using the Color Book and interviews without art materials. Subjects were forty grade school age children attending public schools. Twenty had previously been classified as behaviorally disordered and the other twenty had no such classification. Half of each group was interviewed without art materials. Interviews were conducted by graduate students in Psychology with experience in interviewing techniques. A twenty minute segment of the audiotaped interview was analyzed for the subject's mean length of utterance, number of times an emotion word or phrase was used and the number of times the subject used the words "I", "Me", "My" and "Mine". Two-way analysis of variance failed to detect any significant differences in these variables due the effect of the interviewing conditions.

This review of the literature was in investigation of informal measures used to assess syntax in normal-language and language-impaired, school-aged children. From the eighteen studies that were researched in this review of the literature, 86 measures and their variants were reviewed. Data concerning the T-unit, the most widely used measure for determining syntactic maturity was reviewed as well. Any findings uncovered regarding the syntactic skills of normal - language and/or language-impaired, school - aged children were summarized (typically on the basis of ability level, age or grade level, and sex). In addition, the strengths and weaknesses in previous studies of oral syntactic maturity in either normal-language or language - impaired, school- aged children was discussed. This was done by systematically reviewing indicators of study quality.

The survival of our nation, during a nuclear exchange, depends upon an effective national defense structure. The prime weapon system in this defense structure is the ballistic missile. Although many factors enter into an evaluation of the effectiveness of a ballistic missile, one of the most important measure is accuracy. Without an accurate weapon system we have no weapon system. The Department of Defense has places emphasis on using a method of accuracy evaluation called "Probably Circular Error (CEP)." Probably Circular Error is defined as "The radius of a circle, centered at the intended target, within which 50% of the missiles would be expected to impact" or "The probability is 0.50 that an individual missile will impact within a circle whose radius is equal to the CEP." The statistical techniques and assumptions used in generation a CEP value will be investigated.

Cette thèse est dédiée à l'étude des propriétés de compacité de familles d'applications analytiques entre espaces analytiques définis sur un corps métrisé non-Archimédien $k$.Nous travaillons dans le contexte des espaces analytiques développés par Berkovich pour exploiter leur topologie modérée.Une de nos motivations est le désire d'introduire une notion naturelle d'hyperbolicité au sens de Kobayashi dans ce cadre.Nous démontrons d'abord un analogue au théorème de Montel pour des applications analytiques à valeurs dans un domaine borné de l'espace affine.Afin de ceci faire, nous paramétrisons l'espace des applications analytiques d'un polydisque ouvert dans un polydique fermé par le spectre analytique d'une $k$-algèbre de Banach adéquate.Le résultat découle alors de la compacité séquentielle de cet espace.Nos résultats mènent naturellement à une définition de famille normale, et nous introduisons ensuite deux ensembles de Fatou associés à un endomorphisme de l'espace projectif.Nous montrons que les composantes de Fatou se comportent comme dans le cas complexeet ne contiennent pas d'image non-triviale de la droite affine épointée.Ensuite, nous appliquons notre notion de normalité à l'étude de l'hyperbolicité dans le cadre non-Archimédien.Nous reprenons les travaux de W. Cherry et démontrons plusieurs caractérisations des variétés projectives lisses pour lesquelles la semi-distance de Cherry-Kobayashi sur l'ensemble des points rigides définit la topologie usuelle.Nous obtenons finalement une caractérisation des courbes algébriques lisses $X$ de caractéristique d'Euler négative en termes de la normalité de certaines familles d'applications analytiques à valeurs dans $X$. / This thesis is devoted to the study of compactness properties of spaces of analytic maps between analytic spaces defined over a non-Archimedean metrized field $k$. We work in the theory of analytic spaces as developed by Berkovich to fully exploit their tame topology. One of our motivations is the strive to introduce a natural notion of Kobayashi hyperbolicity in this setting.We first prove an analogue of Montel’s theorem for analytic maps taking values in a bounded domain of the affine space. In order to do so, we parametrize the space of analytic maps from an open polydisk to a closed one by the analytic spectrum of a suitable Banach $k$-algebra. Our result then follows from the sequential compactness of this space.Our results naturally lead to a definition of normal families, and we subsequently introduce two notions of Fatou sets attached to an endomorphism of the projective space. We show that Fatou components behave like in the complex case and cannot contain non trivial images of the punctured affine line.Thereupon, we apply our normality notion to the study of hyperbolicity in the non-Archimedean setting. We pursue the work of W. Cherry and prove various characterizations of smooth projective varieties whose Cherry-Kobayashi semi distance on the set of rigid points defines the classical topology. We finally obtain a characterization of smooth algebraic curves $X$ of negative Euler characteristic in terms of the normality of certain families of analytic maps taking values in $X$.

Somatic Copy Number Alterations (CNAs) are common events in human cancers. Identifying CNAs and Significant Copy number Aberrations (SCAs) in cancer genomes is a critical task in searching for cancer-associated genes. Advanced genome profiling technologies, such as SNP array technology, facilitate copy number study at a genome-wide scale with high resolution. However, due to normal tissue contamination, the observed intensity signals are actually the mixture of copy number signals contributed from both tumor and normal cells. This genetic confounding factor would significantly affect the subsequent copy number analyses. In order to accurately identify significant aberrations in contaminated cancer genome, we develop a Java AISAIC package (Accurate Identification of Significant Aberrations in Cancer) that incorporates recent novel algorithms in the literature, BACOM (Bayesian Analysis of Copy number Mixtures) and SAIC (Significant Aberrations in Cancer). Specifically, BACOM is used to estimate the normal tissue contamination fraction and recover the "true" copy number profiles. And SAIC is used to detect SCAs using large recovered tumor samples. Considering the popularity of modern multi-core computers and clusters, we adopt concurrent computing using Java Fork/Join API to speed up the analysis. We evaluate the performance of the AISAIC package in both empirical family-wise type I error rate and detection power on a large number of simulation data, and get promising results. Finally, we use AISAIC to analyze real cancer data from TCGA portal and detect many SCAs that not only cover majority of reported cancer-associated genes, but also some novel genome regions that may worth further study. / Master of Science

The first Bulletin for the East Tennessee State Normal School was published in June 1911. This served as the general handbook of the institution and includes information about the founding of the university as well as the first listing of faculty, term calendars, classes offered and general information around the operations of the institution. The physical copy of this item can be found in the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University. For access or more information please contact the Archives of Appalachia.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(医学) / 甲第20220号 / 医博第4179号 / 新制||医||1019(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 妹尾 浩, 教授 野田 亮, 教授 齊藤 博英 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

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