Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / The purpose of this research is to examine the medical management process of placing and monitoring active duty fleet enlisted personnel in a temporary medical duty status and its impact on fleet readiness. Due to the variety of medical categories this research focuses primarily on personnel placed in Temporary Limited Duty and Medical Hold. Personnel in medical status "limbo" decrease readiness and cost the Navy millions of personnel dollars each year. The study highlights improvements in communication, education and training at all levels of the organization based on observations from the fleet and medical communities. This research is intended to provide stakeholders with a matrix for decision-making and provide guidance on the various temporary medical status categories and recommends design changes to the current Temporary Limited Duty Process. / Lieutenant, Medical Service Corps

The diploma thesis "Crisis readiness of the hospital in Frydek - Mistek relating to selected extraordinary events" deals with issues concerning current state of readiness of the Hospital in Frydek-Mistek for selected extraordinary events and the tries to create methods and approaches to improve the hospital's emergency preparedness. I chose mainly qualitative research with quantitative elements for answering research question. First step was random choice from hospitals in Moravian-Silesian Region, so I visited the hospital in Frydek-Mistek and I made data retrieval dealing with extraordinary events. Based on my own observations and the provided documents I detected an incorrect crisis preparedness plan and because it is important to have such an operative plan, which deals with extraordinary events and the inaccurate plan could place hospital to risk, I decided to revise the plan by using special methology, which is set up for this issue. Since the risks involved in the crisis preparedness plan were insufficient in my opinion, I conducted my own risk analysis of the external and internal environment focusing on hospital operation in risk. Then I used the "KARS" method, which is a qualitative risk analysis within its correlation. I determined the risks that should be resolved primarily and after that I revised the plan by using new knowledge. The result of the diploma thesis is a draft plan for crisis readiness of the hospital in Frydek - Mistek, which could be used and refilled by hospital managment alternatively. The plan will be handed over to the hospital management.

More than ever before, educators and researchers are keeping a keen eye on student college- and career-readiness. The widely adopted Common Core State Standards were written with the explicit goal of helping students to be college- or career-ready by the time they graduate from high school. However, many students experience setbacks, such as course failure, within their educational career placing them at risk for not reaching this goal. Because the ACT can predict student success in college, states often use benchmark scores from the exam to measure student college- and career-readiness. A student who fails to learn fundamental concepts in either Algebra I or Geometry will not score as well on the ACT and is not likely to meet benchmark scores for college- and career-readiness. It is important, then, for schools to provide credit recovery opportunities to students who do not pass these classes so they can master the content and earn a passing grade. This research study examines different credit recovery options offered at one high school to students who failed Algebra I and/or Geometry. These options included re-taking the class, summer school, an online course, and a more unique mastery based program. Because students were nested within teachers, hierarchical linear modeling was used to determine associations between credit recovery options and the ACT mathematics score which is used to determine college- and career-readiness. Also considered were the effects of gender, race, socioeconomic status, and previous achievement indicated by PLAN mathematics scores. For Algebra I, no variables were found to be statistically significant as fixed effects, and only re-taking the class, PLAN mathematics scores, and identification as White were found to be statistically significant as random effects. For Geometry, identification as being African American was the only variable found to be statistically significant as a fixed effect, and re-taking the course and participation in summer school were both found to be statistically significant as random effects.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:08:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao marcia computacao.pdf: 1655396 bytes, checksum: c4709164650ccf898257560c6d7914e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-27 / The study of behavior adoption products and services - based technology by the consumer is as a great helper choices for design projects and in targeting market, represented a challenge for new products and technological services therefore means intensive growth of these products, various studies indicate also the frustration of consumers interact with technology acquired. Such evidence are particularly important as consumer beliefs are positively related to your acceptance or resistance in adopt products and technological services. In this context, the readiness to technology emerges as construct fundamental to understanding attitudes on consumer technology. This work is the general objective to propose a method to help engineers electricians in the design project automation home (AR) based on user profile technology from the analysis of personal characteristics, rather evaluating the propensity of individuals with adopt products and technological services air from drivers and inhibitors mental related optimism, inovatividade, discomfort and insecurity. We use as method technology readiness index (TRIx). With this, this work is useful in engineering project air, leading to a design of a project as close as possible claim preference and characteristic of the user / customer is aimed at greater satisfaction and quality products and solutions offered by AR / O estudo do comportamento de adoção de produtos e serviços baseados em tecnologia pelo consumidor tem se mostrado como um grande auxiliar nas escolhas para concepção de projetos e no direcionamento de mercado, representado assim um desafio para novos produtos e serviços tecnológicos, pois, em meio ao intenso crescimento destes produtos, diversos estudos apontam também a frustração do consumidor em interagir devidamente com a tecnologia adquirida. Tais evidências são especialmente importantes à medida que as crenças do consumidor estão positivamente relacionadas à sua aceitação ou resistência em adotar produtos e serviços tecnológicos. Nesse contexto, a prontidão para tecnologia emerge como construto fundamental para o entendimento das atitudes do consumidor diante da tecnologia. Este trabalho tem o objetivo geral propor um método para auxiliar os engenheiros eletricistas na concepção de projetos de Automação Residencial (AR) baseando-se no perfil do usuário da tecnologia a partir da análise das características pessoais, mais propriamente avaliando a propensão dos indivíduos em adotar produtos e serviços tecnológicos de AR a partir de condutores e inibidores mentais relacionados ao otimismo, inovatividade, desconforto e insegurança. Utilizamos como fundamento o método de Technology Readdiness Index (TRIx). Com isto, este trabalho busca ser útil no auxílio à projeto de engenharia de AR, levando a uma concepção de um projeto mais próximo possível da pretensão, preferência e característica do usuário/cliente ao qual se destina, visando maior satisfação e qualidade com os produtos e também nas soluções proporcionadas pela AR

D.Ed. (Didactics) / The main objective of this research is to develop a diagnostic model for the prediction of mathematics achievement for first year university students. In order to design this model of prediction, the following objectives were formulated: * to establish a profile of a typical successful and unsuccessful student in Mathematics; * to calculate the probable final mark achieved by a student in Mathematics; * to establish the probability of success by a student in Mathematics. In this research various factors determinating the academic performance of first year students at a university are discussed. Firstly the transition from school to university and its implications on the student, the teaching of a subject and its influence, and those factors inherent in the student are investigated. The factors inherent to the student are described as cognitive factors (intelligence, aptitude and previous performance) and non-cognititve factors (study methods and attitudes, interest, anxiety, personality and adjustment).

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if a relationship existed between the quality of school-community partnerships and the average score of each ACT subtest for rural Tennessee high school students. Specifically, the researcher examined the following school-community partnerships: business partnerships, university partnerships, service learning partnerships, school-linked service integration, and faith-based partnerships (Sanders, 2006). Administrators from 62 rural Tennessee high schools rated the partnerships present in their schools using the Improving Community Partnership Quality rating scale developed by Sanders (2006). Each of these ratings was compared to the participating school’s mean score for each ACT benchmark to determine whether these partnerships could be linked to success on the ACT. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated for each partnership type and each ACT subtest. The results revealed that a statistically significant relationship did not exist between school-community partnerships and ACT subtest scores.

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The major purpose of this study was to determine which subtests of the Gesell School Readiness Screening Test are the best predictors of reading achievement. The procedure used was a stepwise multiple regression to determine which subtests were the best predictors of achievement for each reading section of the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills. Seventy-two students from four schools were evaluated for this study. Three testing instruments were administered to these students. They were the Gesell test, the Otis-Lennon test, and the reading subtests of the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills. The Gesell test consisted of eight subtests: Cubes, Name, Copy Forms, Numbers, Incomplete Man, Interview, Animals, and Interests. The best single predictor subtest was Interview. Four separate regression analyses were computed, one for each of the subtests of the reading section of the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills. In each case, the Gesell subtest Interview entered the stepwise regression at step one. After the information for Interview was entered into the regression equation, the remaining seven subtest scores added very little to the prediction. In summary, although there was some predictive ability in the Gesell test, the level of predictability was not strong. Post factum interpretation of the low predictability was presented as were recommendations for Volusia County in the use of the Gesell test for placement of students in the kindergarten-first grade transitional class.

To remain competitive and create a sustainable business, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) need to develop both incremental and radical innovation. What many companies struggle with is to evaluate the potential of innovation initiatives. The development of products and innovations has over the years changed from a traditional technocentric view into a more human-centered view with the user’s desirability in focus. Also, the increased global competition and interest in business model innovation are forcing companies to verify the viability of the offering to their customers. While Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is an established tool for evaluating the technology, there are no holistic methods which also evaluates the readiness of the users and business.  The purpose of this thesis was to review available theory and methods used for evaluating the potential and readiness of innovation initiatives and to develop a holistic methodology to link the business, user, and technology related innovation activities. The innovation readiness is a combination of business, user, and technology readiness. The study started with a literature study where existing methods were presented from the three aspects; business, user, and technology. Since many critical decisions are made in the front-end of the innovation, the focus in the study has been to identify methods in the early stages of the process. This thesis was performed in collaboration with Company X, a global equipment manufacturer which also was the main object in this study. The findings from a case study performed at Company X were verified by comparing the identified methods and processes used at five external companies. Data was gathered by conducting semi-structured interviews both at Company X and the external companies and finding were compared in a cross-case analysis. In general, the methods used at the OEMs are quite similar, and all manage to balance the three aspects; business, user, and technology.  Based on the findings from the study of the companies and the literature review, a methodology framework is suggested which presents existing evaluating methods from the three aspects business, user, and technology. / För att förbli konkurrenskraftiga och för att skapa en hållbar affärsmodell behöver OEM:s utveckla både inkrementell och radikal innovation. Vad många företag arbetar hårt med är att utvärdera potentialen i innovationsinitiativ. Utvecklingen av produkter och innovationer har genom åren förändrats från en traditionell utveckling med tekniken i centrum till en mer användare-centrerad vy med fokus på användarens intresse av produkten. Dessutom har den ökade globala konkurrensen och intresset för affärsmodellinnovation har ökat intresset hos företagen att verifiera lönsamheten i deras erbjudanden till sina kunder. Medan TRL är ett etablerat verktyg för utvärdering av teknik finns det inga holistiska metoder som även utvärderar användarnas och företagets mognadsgrad och beredskapsnivå. Syftet med detta var att se över tillgänglig teori och metoder för att utvärdera potentialen och mognadsgraden av innovationsinitiativ och att utveckla en holistisk metod för att länka innovations aktiviteter relaterade till affär, användare och teknik. Mognadsgraden av innovation består av en kombination av affärens, användarens och teknikens mognadsgrad. Studien inleddes med en litteraturstudie där befintliga metoder presenterades från de tre aspekterna affär, användare och teknik. Fokus i studien har varit att identifiera metoder i de tidiga stadierna av processen då många kritiska beslut tas i början av innovationsprocessen. Detta examensarbete utfördes i samarbete med Företag X som är en global utrustningstillverkare och som även var huvudobjektet i denna studie. En fallstudie utfördes på Företag X och resultaten från studien verifierades genom att jämföra det med de identifierade metoder och processer som används på fem externa företag. Data samlades in genom att genomföra halvstrukturerade intervjuer både hos Företag X och de externa företagen och resultatet jämfördes i en tvärgående analys. Generellt sätt är metoderna som används hos OEM-tillverkarna ganska lika och alla lyckas balansera de tre aspekterna affär, användare och teknik. Baserat på resultaten från studien av företagen och litteraturundersökningen föreslås en metod som presenterar befintliga utvärderingsmetoder från de tre aspekterna affärer, användare och teknik.

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