Comparison of Comfort Performance Criteria and Sensing Approach in Office Space: Analysis of the Impact on Shading Devices’ Efficiency

Substantial resources have been dedicated to designing and implementing training courses that focus on enhancing the interviewing skills of police officers. Laboratory research studies and real-world assessments of the effectiveness of interview training courses, however, have found notably mixed results. In this article, empirical studies ( N = 30) that have assessed the effectiveness of police interview and interrogation training courses were systematically reviewed. We found a wide variation in terms of the type, length, and content of the training courses, the performance criteria used to assess the training effectiveness, and the impact of the training courses on interviewing performance. Overall, the studies found that basic interviewing skills can be developed to a certain level through even short evidence-based training courses. More cognitively demanding skills, such as question selection and meaningful rapport-building, showed less of an improvement post training. The courses that included multiple training sessions showed the most consistent impact on interviewing behavior. This review also indicated a need for more systematic research on training effectiveness with more uniform and longer-term measures of effectiveness. Our findings should help guide future research on this specific topic and inform the training strategies of law enforcement and other investigatory organizations.

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ACR-1000™ Fuel Design Verification

18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering: Volume 6 ◽

10.1115/icone18-30338 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

David J. Wren ◽

Patrick Reid ◽

Len L. Wright

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

Reactor Core ◽

Cold Test ◽

Performance Criteria ◽

Extensive Experience ◽

Fuel Bundle ◽

Test Loop ◽

Fuel Design ◽

And Performance ◽

The Impact

The ACR-1000™ design is an evolutionary advancement of the proven CANDU® reactor design that delivers enhanced economic performance, safety, operability and maintainability. The fuel for the ACR-1000 design is based on the well established CANDU fuel bundle design that has over 40 years of demonstrated high performance. Building on its extensive experience in fuel design and analysis, and fuel testing, AECL has designed a CANFLEX-ACR™ fuel bundle that incorporates the latest improvements in CANDU fuel bundle design. The ACR-1000 fuel bundle also includes features that enable the ACR-1000 to achieve higher fuel burn-up and improved reactor core physics characteristics. To verify that the CANFLEX-ACR fuel bundle design will meet and exceed all design requirements, an extensive program of design analysis and testing is being carried out. This program rigorously evaluates the ability of the fuel design to meet all design and performance criteria and particularly those related to fuel failure limits. The design analyses address all of the phenomena that affect the fuel during its residence in the reactor core. Analysis is performed using a suite of computer codes that are used to evaluate the temperatures, deformations, stresses and strains experienced by the fuel bundle during its residence in the reactor core. These analyses take into account the impact of fuel power history and core residence time. Complementing the analyses, testing is performed to demonstrate the compatibility of the fuel with the reactor heat transport system and fuel handling systems, and to demonstrate the ability of the fuel to withstand the mechanical forces that it will experience during its residence in the core. The testing program includes direct measurement of prototype fuel element and fuel bundle properties and performance limits. A number of different test facilities are used including a cold test loop and a hot test loop with a full-scale ACR-1000 fuel channel that operates at reactor coolant temperatures, pressures and flows. This paper summarizes the out-reactor test program and related analysis that provide the basis for verifying that the ACR-1000 fuel design meets its requirements.

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Opinions of school principals and teachers about teacher evaluation according to performance criteriaPerformans kriterlerine göre öğretmenlerin değerlendirilmesine ilişkin okul müdürü ve öğretmen görüşleri

Journal of Human Sciences ◽

10.14687/jhs.v14i2.4557 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 1647 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ferudun Sezgin ◽

Ayşe Tınmaz ◽

Sezgin Tetik

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Performance Evaluation ◽

Phenomenological Study ◽

School Principals ◽

Evaluation Process ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Performance Criteria ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

Study Participants ◽

The Impact

The purpose of this study was to examine the opinions of school principals and teachers about the new implication process which teachers are being evaluated by school principals according to performance criteria. Phenomenological study design was chosen in this qualitative research. Participants were selected according to maximum variation sampling which is one of the purposeful sampling methods. Data were collected from 11 school principals and 14 teachers via semi-structured interview forms in Tokat city center. Data were analyzed according to descriptive analyzing technique. According to the results obtained in the study, participants stated that the purpose of current performance evaluation is the evaluation of teachers and to support their professional development. About the new application’s access to the purposes, while many of the teachers reported that the system could not achieve its goals, most of the school principals stated that the system would reach the goals with some shortcomings. Participants criticized the system for fast coming up and implementation. Participants stated that school principals were not qualified for this system. The most important strength of the system was defined as the teacher’s close awareness of the school principals. According to teachers’ views about the weaknesses of the system; the impact of conflicts or prejudices affecting school, school principals’ failure to take into account the criteria list, the existence of biased behaviors, the fact that principals were not educated in supervision, erroneous or incomplete practices in branch-specific evaluations, the deterioration of organizational peace. The majority of school principals reported that the applied system could contribute to the professional development of teachers, while the majority of teachers thought that the system would make a limited contribution. A two-day seminar was held with the school principals while training for teachers was not arranged by the Ministry of Education prior to the performance evaluation process. In the study, some suggestions were also made regarding the development of the current practice and the assessment of teacher performance in Turkey.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBu çalışmanın amacı öğretmenlerin performans kriterlerine göre okul müdürleri tarafından değerlendirildiği yeni uygulama konusunda okul müdürleri ve öğretmenlerin görüşlerini ortaya koymaktır. Nitel araştırma yöntemine göre tasarlanan bu çalışmada olgu bilim deseni benimsenmiştir. Çalışmada katılımcılar amaçlı örnekleme yöntemlerinden maksimum çeşitlemeye göre oluşturulmuştur. Tokat il merkezinde görev yapmakta olan 11 okul müdürü ve 14 öğretmenle yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu kullanılarak veri toplanmıştır. Veriler betimsel analiz tekniğine göre çözümlenmiştir. Araştırmada elde edilen verilere göre katılımcılar mevcut performans değerlendirme uygulamasının amacının daha çok öğretmenlerin değerlendirilmesi ve mesleki gelişimlerini artırma olduğu yönünde görüş belirtmişlerdir. Yeni uygulamanın amacına ulaşabilmesine ilişkin öğretmenlerin çoğunluğu sistemin amacını gerçekleştiremeyeceğini düşünürken okul müdürlerinin çoğunluğu bazı eksiklikler belirtmekle birlikte sistemin amacına ulaşabileceğini ifade etmektedirler. Uygulanma süreciyle ilgili katılımcılar sistemin bir anda gündeme gelmesi ve uygulanmasını eleştirmektedir. Katılımcılar okul müdürlerinin bu konuda yeterli olmadığını düşünmektedir. Sisteminin en önemli güçlü yanının okul müdürünün öğretmeni yakından tanıması olduğu ifade edilmiştir. Sistemin zayıf yönleri ile ilgili olarak öğretmenler; okulda yaşanacak çatışmaların veya önyargıların değerlendirmeyi etkilemesi, okul müdürlerinin kriter listesini dikkate almaması, taraflı davranışların varlığı, müdürlerin denetim konusunda eğitimli olmamaları, branşa özgü değerlendirmelerde hatalı veya eksik uygulama, örgüt barışının bozulması şeklinde görüş belirtmişlerdir. Okul müdürlerinin çoğunluğu uygulanmakta olan sistemin öğretmenlerin mesleki gelişimine katkı sağlayacağını belirtirken öğretmenlerin çoğunluğu kısıtlı katkı sağlayacağını düşünmektedir. Performans değerlendirme süreci öncesinde Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı tarafından öğretmenlere yönelik bir eğitim düzenlenmezken, okul müdürlerine iki günlük bir seminer düzenlenmiştir. Çalışmada ayrıca mevcut uygulamanın geliştirilmesi ile ilgili ve Türkiye’de genel anlamda öğretmen performansının değerlendirilmesi ile ilgili olarak birtakım önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

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Behavioral Self-Regulation of Telework Locations: Interrupting Interruptions! (Retracted)

Journal of Information Systems ◽

10.2308/jis.2005.19.2.111 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 111-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

James E. Hunton

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Work Location ◽

Office Space ◽

Company Policy ◽

The Social ◽

The Rich ◽

The Impact ◽

Health Care Company ◽

Care Company

This study examines the impact of alternative telework strategies on professional and personal outcomes. The research design is a longitudinal between-participants field experiment with two manipulated factors: satellite office space available (no, yes) and downtown office space available (no, yes). In all four conditions, participants could telework from home. The design incorporated a fifth (control) condition with no telework, reflecting current company policy. One hundred sixty medical coders from a large health care company participated in the experiment. Archival data recorded work locations, task interruptions, quality adjusted task performance, and employee retention, while the experience sampling method (ESM) captured cognitive and affective responses. The findings help to explain the social dynamics of work location autonomy in the rich ecological settings of employees' organizational and personal environments.

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District-scale water management: impacts on infrastructure, energy, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

Water Practice & Technology ◽

10.2166/wpt.2012.091 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

Author(s):

D. Myers ◽

P. Grace ◽

E. Lopez Calva ◽

X. Zhang

Keyword(s):

Water Conservation ◽

Conceptual Development ◽

Rainwater Harvesting ◽

Energy System ◽

Performance Criteria ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Carbon Footprints ◽

Peak Runoff ◽

The Impact

This paper explores the impact of water conservation and rainwater harvesting practices implemented at the site or district scale on the infrastructure, energy and water cycles of their larger urban systems. A case study is presented of a conceptual development in a Southeast Asian climate. Two technologies are examined: water-efficient fixtures and appliances and rainwater harvesting and beneficial use. Practices to reduce water consumption at the site or district scale have implications in the larger system, ranging from reductions in water that has to be treated and distributed, reductions in wastewater that has to be collected and treated, and reductions in energy consumed. Similarly, using rainwater for irrigation will reduce the amount of potable water demand, and will have system energy implications. The paper considers performance criteria for the entire water-energy system, including peak runoff, pollutant loads, energy and carbon footprints.

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Immigrants and the ‘caring father’: Inequality in access to and utilisation of parental leave in Norway

Ethnicities ◽

10.1177/1468796819890109 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 959-982

Author(s):

Anne Lise Ellingsæter ◽

Ragni Hege Kitterød ◽

Kjersti Misje Østbakken

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Economic Activity ◽

Work Performance ◽

Parental Leave ◽

Welfare States ◽

Performance Criteria ◽

High Quality ◽

Quality Register ◽

Adaptation Processes ◽

The Impact

How do parental leave rights and interacting societal structures influence immigrant fathers’ compliance with the ‘caring father’ model—typifying Nordic welfare states? Nordic parental leave schemes differ; this study investigated the impact of the Norwegian policy. Strong, stratifying effects related to access, particularly unfavourable for non-Western immigrant fathers, were demonstrated. These effects stemmed not only from the scheme being based on work performance criteria, but also from fathers’ rights being conditioned on mothers’ economic activity. Moreover, the observed gap between eligible immigrant and native-born fathers in the take-up of the father quota (the part of leave earmarked for fathers) was explored further. The gap was associated with weaker individual resources; however, ethnic labour market segregation played a significant role. The gap narrowed with the increased duration of stay of these fathers, suggesting that adaptation processes also are involved. The analysis is based on high-quality register data of all partnered men who became fathers in Norway in 2011, following them until their child was three years old in 2014.

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Modeling Nearly Zero Energy Buildings for Sustainable Development in Rural Areas

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13102593 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (10) ◽

pp. 2593 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Reza Khakian ◽

Mehrdad Karimimoshaver ◽

Farshid Aram ◽

Soghra Zoroufchi Benis ◽

Amir Mosavi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Energy Saving ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Building Design ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Payback Period ◽

Zero Energy ◽

Multiple Parameters ◽

Shading Devices ◽

The Impact

The energy performance of buildings and energy-saving measures have been widely investigated in recent years. However, little attention has been paid to buildings located in rural areas. The aim of this study is to assess the energy performance of two-story residential buildings located in the mountainous village of Palangan in Iran and to evaluate the impact of multiple parameters, namely building orientation, window-to-wall ratio (WWR), glazing type, shading devices, and insulation, on its energy performance. To attain a nearly zero energy building design in rural areas, the building is equipped with photovoltaic modules. The proposed building design is then economically evaluated to ensure its viability. The findings indicate that an energy saving of 29% can be achieved compared to conventional buildings, and over 22 MWh of electricity can be produced on an annual basis. The payback period is assessed at 21.7 years. However, energy subsidies are projected to be eliminated in the near future, which in turn may reduce the payback period.

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The Impact of Cultural Intelligence on Organisational Performance: Applied Study in Sample of Jordanian Pharmaceutical Companies

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management ◽

10.1142/s0219649220500100 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (02) ◽

pp. 2050010

Author(s):

Najm Abood Najm ◽

Aya Y. Zaghari

Keyword(s):

Market Share ◽

Cultural Intelligence ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Performance Criteria ◽

Pharmaceutical Companies ◽

Organisational Performance ◽

Administrative Practices ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

Cognitive Behavioural ◽

The Impact

The aim of this study is to determine the impact of cultural intelligence in its four dimensions (metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioural) on organisational performance based on three criteria: productivity, profitability and market share in Jordanian pharmaceutical companies. The study is sought to provide a broad review of the literature of cultural intelligence and administrative practices in the field of business administration and research in different parts. The results of the study confirmed that there is an impact of three dimensions of cultural intelligence (metacognitive, cognitive, behavioural) on organisational performance (productivity, profitability, market share), while the motivational dimension has no impact on all three performance criteria in Jordanian pharmaceutical companies.

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Prevalence Rates of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment Are Affected by the Diagnostic Parameter Changes for Neurocognitive Disorders in the DSM-5 in a Korean Population

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders ◽

10.1159/000458408 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 43 (3-4) ◽

pp. 193-203 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ji Won Han ◽

Yoonseop So ◽

Tae Hui Kim ◽

Dong Young Lee ◽

Seung-Ho Ryu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Impairment ◽

Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽

Nationwide Survey ◽

Neurocognitive Disorders ◽

Performance Criteria ◽

Prevalence Rates ◽

Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽

Dsm 5 ◽

Gender Education ◽

The Impact

Aim: To examine the impact of the revised diagnostic criteria for neurocognitive disorders (NCDs) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5) on the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods: A total of 755 participants aged 65 years or older in the Nationwide Survey on Dementia Epidemiology in Korea 2012 were rediagnosed according to the DSM-5 criteria. Results: The estimated age-, gender-, education-, and urbanicity-standardized prevalence rates of major and mild NCDs were 8.35 and 11.10%, respectively, and those of dementia and MCI were 8.74 and 31.85%, respectively. Cohen's κ for dementia and major NCD was 0.988, and that for MCI and mild NCD was 0.273. Conclusion: Diagnostic discrepancies between major/mild NCDs and dementia/MCI might depend on the operationalization of neuropsychological performance criteria.

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Performance Analysis of Photovoltaic Integrated Shading Devices (PVSDs) and Semi-Transparent Photovoltaic (STPV) Devices Retrofitted to a Prototype Office Building in a Hot Desert Climate

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su122310145 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (23) ◽

pp. 10145

Author(s):

Abdelhakim Mesloub ◽

Aritra Ghosh ◽

Mabrouk Touahmia ◽

Ghazy Abdullah Albaqawy ◽

Emad Noaime ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Essential Feature ◽

Field Measurements ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Office Building ◽

Visual Comfort ◽

Extra Energy ◽

Shading Devices ◽

Parametric Analyses ◽

The Impact ◽

Desert Climate

This paper presents the impact on energy performance and visual comfort of retrofitting photovoltaic integrated shading devices (PVSDs) to the façade of a prototype office building in a hot desert climate. EnergyPlus™ and the DIVA-for-Rhino© plug-ins were used to perform numerical simulations and parametric analyses examining the energy performance and visual comfort of five configurations, namely: (1) inclined single panel PVSDs, (2) unfilled eggcrate PVSDs, (3) a louvre PVSD of ten slats tilted 30° outward, (4) a louvre PVSD of five slats tilted 30° outward, and (5) an STPV module with 20% transparency which were then compared to a reference office building (ROB) model. The field measurements of an off-grid system at various tilt angles provided an optimum tilt angle of 30°. A 30° tilt was then integrated into some of the PVSD designs. The results revealed that the integration of PVSDs significantly improved overall energy performance and reduced glare. The unfilled eggcrate PVSD did not only have the highest conversion efficiency at ȵ 20% but generated extra energy as well; an essential feature in the hot desert climate of Saudi Arabia.

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