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Products of positive definite symplectic matrices
(2020-07-15)
We show that every symplectic matrix is a product of five positive definite symplectic
matrices and five is the best in the sense that there are symplectic matrices which are not product
of less.
Professional Counselors' Perceptions of the Role of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in Substance Abuse Treatment: A Qualitative Narrative
(2009-12-15)
Participation in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an accepted, widely used practice in substance abuse treatment as a stand-alone method and as an adjunct to more traditional therapeutic models. The absence of overwhelming ...
Professional Development as a Means to Increasing Teachers’ Self-Efficacy for Technology Integration
(2005-05-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore the importance of the integration of technology into educational classrooms and why teachers are reluctant to embrace this integration. Further, this study systemically evaluated ...
The Professional Learning and Development of Principals and Assistant Principals
(2022-07-29)
Continued professional learning and development of school leaders is a way to improve schools and promote positive organizational change (Andreoli et al., 2020; Kim, 2020; Rieckhoff & Larsen, 2012) as well as and a way to ...
Professional Learning Communities: An Examination of 21st Century and Traditional Facility Designs
(2022-04-08)
Today’s educational structures require teachers to move from isolation to collaboration to improve knowledge, skills, and instructional practices for effective teaching and learning. To do this, many schools across the ...
Professors’ Teaching Effectiveness in Relation to Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Perceptions of Student Rating Myths
(2006-08-15)
One of the purposes of the current study was to develop an instrument capturing different dimensions of college professor’s sense of efficacy so as to investigate the relation between professors’ efficacy beliefs and ...
Profile Analysis of Intercultural Sensitivity
(2014-05-01)
Bennett (1986) theorized that preferences for specific worldviews about cultural difference (ranging from ethnocentric to ethno-relative) influence the degree to which trainees benefit from or resist cross-cultural training. ...
Profile Monitoring of Multivariate Processes for Efficient Detection of Parameter Changes
(2018-10-31)
Profile monitoring has been extensively studied when the profile of a quality characteristic is normally distributed. There are a limited number of studies for the case when a profile follows other distributions such as ...
Profiling Newcomers in the Socialization Process: Examining Longitudinal Patterns of Authentic Self-Expression Change
(2023-07-05)
A few existing studies have demonstrated that organizations and supervisors’ support on newcomers’ authentic self-expression is beneficial for socialization outcomes. However, limited attention has been given to understanding ...
Profitability in Marketing Bred Heifers in Alabama
(2020-07-17)
In 2018, the inventory of cattle in the United States was of 94,298,000, from which almost the 7% (6,260,000) came from the Southeast (Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee) (USDA-NASS). Most cattle producers in ...
Prognostic Health Management for Mission and Safety Critical Electronics
(2012-07-17)
The increasing reliance on electrical systems to fulfill mission and safety critical applications has motivated the need for in situ monitoring of functioning electrical systems and a priori warnings of failure. In this ...
Prognostics and Health Management of Lead Free Electronics Subjected to Single Steady-State and Multiple Cyclic Thermal Environments
(2010-12-13)
Requirements for system availability for ultra-high reliability electronic systems such as implantable biological systems, avionics and space are driving the need for advanced heath monitoring techniques for early detection ...
Prognostics and Remaining Useful Life Estimation of Electronic Assemblies under Shock and Combined Temperature-Vibration Experiments
(2022-05-04)
The electronics components experience different high-stress loading environments such as drop, shock, and vibration at various life-cycle stages, i.e., manufacturing, transportation, and deployment in the field. In this ...
Prognostics Health Management and Damage Relationships of Lead-Free Components in Thermal Cycling Harsh Environments
(2008-05-15)
There has been a growing interest in the area of health monitoring of electronics in order to predict the failure and provide warnings. Existing Prognostics Health Management methodologies are very reactive in nature and ...
Program Dosage and Relationship Quality in Healthy Relationship Education: The Role of Facilitation Alliance
(2019-04-18)
Program dosage and facilitation alliance have been related to improvements, namely couple relationship quality, in Couple Relationship Education (CRE) programs. However, little has been done to investigate how these variables ...
Program Evaluation of Elementary School Field Trips to a Botanical Garden
(2017-08-03)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve’s 4th grade environmental science pond studies field trip programs. Student knowledge gain and attitude towards subject matter was ...
A program evaluation of the State of Alabama Independent Living Services Program
(2017-11-06)
The transition to independent living is a celebration of leaving a dependency life stage and transitioning into a life stage of autonomy. However, for individuals with significant disabilities who require assistance, they ...
Progress on the Marcus-de Oliveira Determinantal Conjecture
(2017-04-12)
We discuss the well known conjecture of Marcus and de Oliveira of the determinant of the sum of normal matrices. We present the motivation of this conjecture, along with detailed history of its origin. Then we compile ...
Project-Based Learning in Adult English as a Second Language Programs: A Multiple Case Study
(2015-12-10)
Given the influx of internationals immigrating to the United States (US), English language learners (ELLs) are now the fastest growing group of students in the country with 65% of them being born in the US (DaSilva, Combs, ...
Promethazine Orally Disintegrating Tablet
(2006-05-15)
Orally Disintegrating Tablets (ODTs) which disintegrate rapidly (< one minute) in the mouth and do not require water for administration have become a very popular dosage form. Current methods of manufacturing ODTs are ...