PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to identify a set of core competencies needed to meet the minimal requirements for high school graduation and to test their level of acceptance by administrators, counselors, teachers and parents in 50 Oregon secondary school districts. PROCEDURES: Utilizing the 1136 existing graduation competencies...
The design of a point focus, distributed receiver solar power system is presented. It is
shown that a two axis concentrator, with a two axis solar tracker and drive, has significant
advantages over other possible optical systems. It is further shown that each concentrator should
have its own optical receiver...
Latinos are the fastest growing minority group in the U.S. and are expected to be 25% of the population by the year 2050. Latinos also are more vulnerable and at higher risk for poor health outcomes including diabetes and other chronic health ailments than Anglos. Many of the serious effects...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a disability awareness unit implemented into secondary level physical education curricula, on acceptance and knowledge of students without disabilities. One hundred twelve students in the 7th and 8th grades participated in this study. Predetermined classes of students were randomly...
Post-secondary education institutions across the United States are increasingly allocating resources to promote international education exchange programs as a pedagogical praxis to develop students into global citizens. Underlying such notions of global citizenship is the assumption that students will also develop a stronger post-national or cosmopolitan identity as a result...
Community colleges serve various populations as part of their missions. Many community colleges serve the people who live in rural communities and are challenged with fewer financial resources. The term rural is not easily defined, and many variables need to be considered when creating academic programming for rural populations. There...
This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of sexual harassment codes on college and
university campuses. The situational model proposed by Lloyd Bitzer is used to examine
representative artifacts from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Oregon State
University in Corvallis, Oregon, so as to determine whether they operate as "fitting"...
Robotic Bipedal locomotion holds the potential for efficient, robust traversal of difficult terrain. The difficulty lies in the dynamics of locomotion which complicate control and motion planning. Bipedal locomotion dynamics are dimensionally large problems, extremely nonlinear, and operate on the limits of actuator capabilities, which limit the performance of generic...
This volume contains the papers accepted for the informal workshop on Knowledge Compilation and Speedup Learning held along with the Machine Learning Conference in Aberdeen Scotland. This workshop is a sequel to the first Knowledge Compilation workshop, which was organized by Jim Bennett, Tom Dieterich, and Jack Mostow in Otter...