This report documents the creation and development of the television pilot “The Forest for the Trees.” It chronicles the processes by which the writer tried, erred, and once in a while succeeded in writing a script with which he is moderately satisfied. / text

Placed 2nd in the Graduate Agriculture and Life Sciences division of the Student Showcase / Arizona’s riparian ecosystems have been susceptible to degradation because state water laws do not consider environmental water needs. This lack of legal authority has led to water being diverted away from desert waterways through surface water and groundwater withdrawals (Megdal et al. 2011). To help bring the environment to the table as a water using sector, the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) has developed the Conserve to Enhance (C2E) program. C2E is an innovative water conservation mechanism that addresses ecological water needs by raising funds through individual donations for river and riparian enhancement projects. The C2E Program invites community members to implement water conservation methods, track their monthly water savings through a Water Conservation Calculator, and then donate those savings to a C2E fund. Tucson is home to the first C2E Pilot Program, which began January 2011 with 60 participants. The goal is to determine if a program like C2E would be successful at a larger, city-wide scale and if such a program is applicable for other water-scarce communities in the Southwest.

Thesis advisor: Thomas M. Crea / Child sexual abuse is a major public health problem in the United States, but identifying risk, especially in young children with suspicion of abuse, poses many challenges. The aim of this study is to understand how clinicians judge the possible presence of sexual abuse in children where serious suspicion exists but without substantiated abuse. This study used data from randomly selected sexual abuse and trauma evaluations of preschool and school-aged children presenting to Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) Outpatient Child Protection Program between 2000-2007 (N=100) to examine the association between child and family risk factors and level of clinician concern regarding likelihood of child sexual abuse. Multi-nomial logistic regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between child and family risk factors and level of clinician concern regarding suspicion of abuse, moderated by child’s gender and age. Results indicated that a child’s disclosure and trauma presentation were the key factors that clinicians considered within the higher level of clinician concern regarding likelihood of sexual abuse. Implications for future research and clinical practice include attention to methodology research to assist with the development and validation of assessments for evaluation of risk in complex cases of suspicion of sexual abuse that can be offered in clinical setting, without sole reliance on the child’s ability to disclose in order to access help. Additionally, it is essential that research focuses on the development of clinical models to help with clinical decision making protocols in ambiguous cases of sexual abuse with children who may not be in a position to disclose, but serious concerns have been raised, with focus on increasing their safety. The findings in this research strongly suggest that it is essential to continue to focus on assisting children who present with suspicion of sexual abuse in complex cases that do not fit neatly into our current forensic and child protective services systems. This is especially necessary with the most vulnerable children where disclosure is unlikely, but clinical evaluations can yield recommendations that maximize efforts at increasing safety, child mental health, and family cohesion, and build on strengths while simultaneously accounting for risks. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work. / Discipline: Social Work.

The fourth generation cellular mobile communication system in the future needs to provide high data rate transmissions. Multi-Tone CDMA (MT-CDMA) system combines the advantages of CDMA and OFDM, and it is one of the promising choices for the fourth cellular mobile communication system. In order to raise the performance, we amend MT-CDMA named Modified MT-CDMA. We use different pilot arrangement in different channel to enhance the channel estimation of system. The receiver architecture includes a baseband signal detection and a channel estimation. We use a pilot symbol to estimation the channel. In this thesis, we make a study of pilot arrangement on different channel estimation performance of system. We use Least Square estimation(LS)¡Blinear interpolation¡Bspline interpolation¡BFFT/IFFT interpolation and spline interpolation combine FFT/IFFT algorithm to estimate the system performance.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1949. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-56).

“Finding the Promised Land: The Evolution of ‘Paradise City’” examines the development of Alisha Brophy’s television pilot, “Paradise City,” and the personal changes that have resulted from her involvement in this project. / text

This report describes the evolution of the television pilot for the half-hour comedy series "Standby." It documents the idea’s initial conception, through its various outline and draft stages, and finally to its successful completion for thesis consideration. In addition, the report looks ahead to the future of the project, as well as traces the writer’s growth both before and during his time in the MFA Screenwriting program. / text

This study was a pilot investigation of the initial validity of a newly developed behaviour-screening instrument for early intervention service providers. Group Special Education, Early Intervention (GSE/EI) (2005) adapted the Canterbury Behaviour Screening Protocol (CBSP) from a widely used behaviour-screening instrument the Early Screening Project. The CBSP consisted of 49 items in 2 checklists. GSE/EI identified 10 early childhood centres with a total roll of 712 to participate in the study. Staff were asked to categorise children's problem behaviours as either withdrawn/isolated or aggressive/oppositional, using profiles provided. Next, they were asked to nominate 2 children in each category, and an additional 2 children in either category, and to rank them from most concerning to least concerning. Centres identified 25 children in the withdrawn/isolated category, and 28 children in the aggressive/oppositional category. Staff completed checklists for children with parent/carer consent, which were scored according to preset protocols. Scores on the CBSP were assigned risk values ranging from "extreme" to "no risk". The estimated prevalence of "high" to "extreme" behaviour problems was 7.2% based on CBSP protocols and teacher nominations. The level of agreement between teacher rank and CBSP score was 79%, and this determined the initial specificity. Next, independent observations of the behaviour of the nominated children were conducted during free play periods at the centres by an observer blind to the children's nominated category, teacher ranking or checklist score. Risk levels were assigned based on the observation scores, using a cut-off value of 37% time spent in problem behaviour for girls and 40% for boys. There was agreement in terms of teacher rank and observation scores, (categorised into either "no risk" and "at/high/extreme risk) for 65% for children in the withdrawn/isolated category, and 75% for children in the aggressive/oppositional category. The level of agreement between the CBSP score and the observations (categorised into either "no risk" or "at/high/extreme" risk) was 40% for children in the withdrawn/isolated category, and 46% for children in the aggressive/oppositional category. Using the cut-off values, a prevalence estimate for high risk or extreme risk for behaviour disorders, based on independent observation of children, was 3.2%. Centre staff completing a feedback form determined the social validity of the CBSP. Although responses were generally favourable, a number of suggestions were also made to improve the procedure. Despite limitations in the design of the draft, the CBSP shows promise for a first step in a screening procedure designed to screen New Zealand early childhood centres for children who may be at risk for developing behaviour and/or social emotional problems. The independent observation may also be useful as a second step, prior to extensive eligibility assessment. A number of suggestions were made for future drafts such as addressing the limitations specified, conducting the CBSP with a greater number of children, and determining the concurrent validity, and test-retest reliability.

The use of simulation is becoming increasingly important in the education of practitioners whose field of work contains a low tolerance for error. In aerospace, aviation, medicine, paramedicine, and the military, simulations are expected to provide working practitioners with on demand experience. However, the ways in which learning emerges out of simulation have been poorly understood. This research provides insight into the processes of learning that are generated and the forms of knowledge that arise out of learning endeavors based upon the use of simulation. This study employed a form of naturalistic inquiry. Eight individuals from seven domains of work were extensively interviewed regarding their simulation experience. Conceptually, the methods are premised upon Pattons (2002) understanding of qualitative inquiry, Van Manens (1997) phenomenological approach to lived experience, and Ricoeurs hermeneutical approach to the interpretation of the text. Ricoeurs (1986) conceptualization of ideology and utopia as a dialectic which comprises the social imaginary and Kearneys (2003) analysis of the Other inform the analysis. It is the central finding of this study that experience in simulation is consistently interpreted to be both real and an imagination of the real. Experiential learning has at least five dimensions: purpose, interpretation, engagement, self, and context (Fenwick, 2003) all of which are affected in the pedagogical activity of simulation. The learning that emerges out of simulation always involves the social imaginary. Simulation forces an engagement with the symbolic nature of the social imaginary, and it is because a specific aspect of the social imaginary is reproduced in simulation that a need for interpretation is provoked and learning occurs. This study is theoretically significant because it adds to the academic literature through an improved understanding of simulation as a complex entanglement of the real and the imaginary. Practical significance lies in understanding the effective use of simulation as a pedagogical tool which can inform or reify the existing dimensions of experiential learning. Overall, the study contributes to our knowledge about how learning emerges out of simulation and how simulation fosters such an emergence. / Adult Education

Coherent transmission system has been extensively studied in recent years, and it can use different modulation formats and different detection techniques. The modulation formats are ASK (Amplitude shift keying), PSK (Phase shift keying), and FSK (Frequency shift keying). The detection techniques are Homodyne detection and Heterodyne detection, and they need a laser in the receiver called as the LO (Local oscillator). In the previous study, the BPSK (Binary phase shift keying) modulation format was investigated, and the pilot carrier method realized the Homodyne Detection. The merit of the pilot carrier is that it do not need the LO in the receiver. In this master thesis, the QPSK (Quadrature phase shift keying) modulation format is investigated using the pilot carrier method, The BER is calculated using the matlab program. The performance of 20G bit/s, 50 km transmission system using the BPSK and the QPSK is compared to clarify the merits and demerits of the QPSK modulation.