Written participation with response technology – How teachers ask and students respond with applied text response functionality

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 102551
Author(s):  
Even Einum
Keyword(s):  
Text Response

scholarly journals Effect of a 15% Increase in Preferred Pedal Rate on Time to Exhaustion During Heavy Exercise

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Nesi ◽  
Laurent Bosquet ◽  
Serge Berthoin ◽  
Jeanne Dekerle ◽  
Patrick Pelayo
Keyword(s):  
Exercise Tolerance ◽  
Ventilatory Threshold ◽  
Slow Component ◽  
Time To Exhaustion ◽  
Heavy Exercise ◽  
Pedal Rate ◽  
Competitive Cyclists ◽  
Text Response ◽  
Specific Formula ◽  
The Difference

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a 15% increase in preferred pedal rate (PPR) on both time to exhaustion and pulmonary O2 uptake [Formula: see text] response during heavy exercise. Seven competitive cyclists underwent two constant-power tests (CPT) at a power output that theoretically requires 50% of the difference in [Formula: see text] between the second ventilatory threshold and [Formula: see text]max (PΔ50). Each cyclist cycled a CPT at PPR (CPTPPR) and a CPT at +15% of PPR (CPT+15%) in a randomized order. The average PPR value was 94 ± 4 rpm, and time to exhaustion was significantly longer in CPTPPR compared with CPT+15% (465 ± 139 vs. 303 ± 42 s, respectively; p = 0.01). A significant decrease in [Formula: see text] values in the first minutes of exercise and a significant increase in [Formula: see text] slow component was reported in CPT+15% compared with CPTPPR. These data indicate that the increase of 15% PPR was associated with a decrease in exercise tolerance and a specific [Formula: see text] response, presumably due to an increase of negative muscular work, internal work, and an altering of motor unit recruitment patterns. Key words: aerobic demand, cadence, cyclists, exercise tolerance, pedaling frequency

scholarly journals Transportation barriers to care among frequent health care users during the COVID pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail L. Cochran ◽  
Noreen McDonald ◽  
Lauren Prunkl ◽  
Emma Vinella-Brusher ◽  
Jueyu Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Health Care Outcomes ◽  
Response Data ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Transportation Barriers ◽  
Text Response ◽  
Care Outcomes ◽  
Barriers To Health

Objective: To investigate transportation barriers to accessing health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic among high-frequency health care users.Data Sources: Between June 21 and July 23, 2021, primary survey data were collected for a sample of patients in North Carolina.Study Design: The study analyzed the prevalence of arriving late to, delaying, or missing medical care and examined how transportation barriers contributed to negative health care outcomes. Data Collection Methods: A web-based survey was administered to North Carolina residents aged 18 and older in the UNC Health system who were enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare and had at least six outpatient medical appointments in the past year. 323 complete responses were analyzed to investigate the prevalence of reporting transportation barriers that resulted in having arrived late to, delayed, or missed care, as well as relationships between demographic and other independent variables and transportation barriers. Qualitative analyses were performed on text response data to explain transportation barriers.Principal Findings: Approximately 1 in 3 respondents experienced transportation barriers to health care between June 2020 and June 2021. Multivariate logistic regressions indicate individuals aged 18–64 were significantly more likely to encounter transportation barriers. Costs of traveling for medical appointments and a lack of driver or car availability emerged as major transportation barriers; however, respondents explained that barriers were often complex, involving circumstantial problems related to one’s ability to access and pay for transportation as well as to personal health.Conclusions: To address transportation barriers, we recommend more coordination between transportation and health professionals and the implementation of programs that expand access to and improve patient awareness of health care mobility services. We also recommend transportation and health entities direct resources to address transportation barriers equitably, as barriers disproportionately burden younger adults under age 65 enrolled in public insurance programs.

Personal response or critical response in secondary english discussions

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Love
Keyword(s):  
Narrow Range ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Analytical Response ◽  
Text Response

Abstract Whole Class Text Response Discussions (WCTRD) are pervasive in secondary English and represent one site in which students can learn to adopt the habits of critical thought that are promoted in state and national Curriculum documents. In this study, the phasal structures (Gregory and Malcolm 1981) of a variety of such WCTRDs in Australian secondary English classrooms were examined. It was found that teachers in such WCTRDs regularly made limited selections from the available pool of phases, such selections regularly scaffolding a narrow range of literate and moral skills, but offering little support for the development of critical and analytical response. Such results suggest that despite a shift at an academic and professional development level towards more critically-oriented models of text response, day-to-day discursive practice in some secondary English classrooms in Australia is still very much grounded in Reader Response practices (Iser 1978) that contribute to the development of morally compliant citizens. One WCTRD was selected for closer analysis of how the textual, experiential and interpersonal meanings (Halliday 1994) operated to privilege students’ ‘personal response’ over critical response. Through the examination of Transitivity and Conversational Structural choices in particular, a picture was provided of how this WCTRD was structured to encourage students to rehearse previously appropriated ideologies, rather than to critically or analytically interrogate these ideologies.

A randomized trial of a mercaptopurine (6MP) adherence-enhancing intervention in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL): A COG ACCL1033 study.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 10007-10007
Author(s):  
Smita Bhatia ◽  
Lindsey Hageman ◽  
Yanjun Chen ◽  
Florence Lennie Wong ◽  
Leo Mascarenhas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Lymphoblastic Leukemia ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Intervention Package ◽  
Time Interaction ◽  
Text Response ◽  
Baseline Characteristics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Clinical Trial Information

10007 Background: We previously reported that > 40% of children with ALL are non-adherent to 6MP, and > 52% of ALL relapses are attributable to 6MP non-adherence. The most common barrier is forgetting to take 6MP; the most common facilitator is parental vigilance. These observations informed a randomized trial to enhance 6MP adherence (COG-ACCL1033, #NCT01503632; 89 COG sites). Results are described here. Methods: The Intervention Package (IP) consisted of: i) Education; ii) 6MP schedules; iii) daily personalized text message reminders from physician to patient and caregiver, to prompt iv) directly supervised therapy (DST), with text back response by patient/caregiver. Baseline adherence was measured for 4 wks, followed by intervention for 16 wks to examine the impact of IP vs. Edu (education) on 6MP adherence (measured electronically by MEMs Cap) in all patients, ≥12yo, < 12yo. Longitudinal binomial logistic regression using generalized estimating equations was used. Missing data were handled by multiple imputation. Results: 444 patients were randomly assigned to IP (n = 230) or Edu (n = 214). Baseline characteristics (age at study: 8.6y vs 7.5y; males: 67% vs 69%; non-Hispanic whites: 40% vs 42%) and adherence rates (92% vs 94%) were comparable (except paternal education: 49% vs 38%, p = 0.04). No study arm*time interaction was found; thus, the 16-week overall mean fitted adherence rates were compared between IP and Edu, adjusting for baseline adherence, time on study, parental education. All patients: Adherence rates were marginally higher on IP (94% vs 92.5%, p = 0.09). On IP, for times with a record of text response, adherence rates were higher (94%) when compared with times with no response (89%), p = 0.002. < 12yo: Adherence rates were comparable (IP: 94.4% vs Edu: 93.7%, p = 0.5). ≥12yo: Adherence rates were significantly higher on IP (93.1% vs 90.0%, p = 0.037). ≥12yo with baseline adherence < 90%: IP had the highest impact for this subgroup (83.4% vs 74.6%, p = 0.008). Conclusions: A 16-week comprehensive intervention resulted in higher 6MP adherence rates in children with ALL who were 12y or older at study. IP was most impactful in adolescents with baseline non-adherence. Clinical trial information: #NCT01503632.

scholarly journals Onset responses of ventilation and cerebral blood flow to hypercapnia in humans: rest and exercise

2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 880-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigehiko Ogoh ◽  
Philip N. Ainslie ◽  
Tadayoshi Miyamoto
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Cerebral Blood Flow ◽  
Cerebrovascular Reactivity ◽  
Ph Homeostasis ◽  
Text Response ◽  
Respiratory Chemoreflex ◽  
Exponential Regression Model ◽  
Cerebral Vasodilation ◽  
Onset Response ◽  
Onset Responses

The respiratory and cerebrovascular reactivity to changes in arterial Pco2 ([Formula: see text]) is an important mechanism that maintains CO2 or pH homeostasis in the brain. It remains unclear, however, how cerebrovascular CO2 reactivity might influence the respiratory chemoreflex. The purpose of the present study was therefore to examine the interaction between onset responses of the respiratory chemoreflex and middle cerebral artery (MCA) mean blood velocity ( Vmean) to hypercapnia (5.0% CO2-40% O2-balance N2) at rest and during dynamic exercise (∼1.0 l/min O2 consumption). Each onset response was evaluated using a single-exponential regression model consisting of the response time latency [CO2-response delay ( t0)] and time constant (τ). At rest, t0 and τ data indicated that the MCA Vmean onset response was faster than the ventilatory (V̇e) response ( P < 0.001). In contrast, during exercise, t0 of V̇e and MCA Vmean onset responses were decreased. In addition, despite the enhanced [Formula: see text] response to CO2 administration ( P = 0.014), τ of MCA Vmean tended to increase during exercise ( P = 0.054), whereas τ of V̇e decreased ( P = 0.015). These findings indicate that 1) at rest, faster washout of CO2 via cerebral vasodilation results in a reduced activation of the central chemoreflex and subsequent reduced V̇e onset response, and 2) during exercise, despite higher rates of increasing [Formula: see text], the lack of change in the onset response of cerebral blood flow and reduced washout of CO2 may act to augment the V̇e onset response.

Gap junctions and fluid flow response in MC3T3-E1 cells

2001 ◽  
Vol 281 (6) ◽  
pp. C1917-C1925 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Saunders ◽  
J. You ◽  
J. E. Trosko ◽  
H. Yamasaki ◽  
Z. Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Gap Junctions ◽  
Bone Cell ◽  
Dominant Negative ◽  
Prostaglandin E ◽  
Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication ◽  
Gap Junctional Communication ◽  
Junctional Communication ◽  
Text Response ◽  
Gap Junctional

In the current study, we examined the role of gap junctions in oscillatory fluid flow-induced changes in intracellular Ca2+concentration and prostaglandin release in osteoblastic cells. This work was completed in MC3T3-E1 cells with intact gap junctional communication as well as in MC3T3-E1 cells rendered communication deficient through expression of a dominant-negative connexin. Our results demonstrate that MC3T3-E1 cells with intact gap junctions respond to oscillatory fluid flow with significant increases in prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) release, whereas cells with diminished gap junctional communication do not. Furthermore, we found that cytosolic Ca2+ (Ca[Formula: see text]) response was unaltered by the disruption in gap junctional communication and was not significantly different among the cell lines. Thus our results suggest that gap junctions contribute to the PGE2 but not to the Ca[Formula: see text] response to oscillatory fluid flow. These findings implicate gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) in bone cell ensemble responsiveness to oscillatory fluid flow and suggest that gap junctions and GJIC play a pivotal role in mechanotransduction mechanisms in bone.

Inductive induced polarization effect in heliborne time-domain electromagnetic data for uranium exploration, northern part of Cuddapah Basin, India

Geophysics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. B109-B120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veldi Ramesh Babu ◽  
Indrajit Patra ◽  
Shailesh Tripathi ◽  
Sridhar Muthyala ◽  
Anand K. Chaturvedi
Keyword(s):  
Time Domain ◽  
Induced Polarization ◽  
Uranium Mineralization ◽  
Cuddapah Basin ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Argillic Alteration ◽  
Uranium Exploration ◽  
Time Domain Electromagnetic ◽  
Text Response ◽  
Lithologic Unit

The Peddagattu, Lambapur, Chitrial and Koppunuru uranium deposits along the northern margins of the Cuddapah Basin are confined to the middle Proterozoic unconformity interface between Archean basement granites and the overlying resistive quartzites. Negative transients observed in the coincident loop heliborne time-domain electromagnetic (HTEM) data over these deposits (occurring in outliers) are believed to be due to thick polarizable conductive zones occurring along the unconformity. Similar negative HTEM responses are recorded over the Gorukunta Tanda outlier. A ground spectral induced polarization (SIP) survey conducted over the outlier and ground geologic observations indicated an altered basement/regolith with thickness up to 5 m below 20–30 m thick quartzite. Interpretation of Cole-Cole parameters computed from the SIP data indicated a change in the dispersion. These Cole-Cole parameters were used in modeling negative HTEM data assuming a polarizable plate placed in a layered earth at a depth of approximately 50 m using the CSIRO LeroiAir program. A negative [Formula: see text] response in the late channels indicated that the negatives can be explained in terms of inductive induced polarization effects. Modeling of HTEM [Formula: see text] data for the profile through the Lambapur uranium deposit and the Gorukunta Tanda reveals the presence of a polarizable lithologic unit at a depth of approximately 40 m. This unit is interpreted as an argillic alteration of basement, with the presence of clay and/or disseminated sulfides as evidenced from the core extracted from the boreholes at depths below the highly resistive quartzite. Uranium mineralization is closely associated with altered basement and sulfides along the unconformity where the distinct negative electromagnetic (EM) signature is recorded. Furthermore, there exists a good correlation between the uranium mineralization grade and the thickness versus the averaged late-channel negative HTEM response over the known deposits. The negative EM response helped in locating the new target areas for uranium exploration.

Developing a Graphical User Interface for an Artificial Intelligence-Based Voice Assistant

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Subhash S. ◽  
Siddesh S. ◽  
Prajwal N. Srivatsa ◽  
Ullas A. ◽  
Santhosh B.
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Audio File ◽  
Voice User ◽  
Text Response ◽  
Intelligent Personal Assistant ◽  
The Voice

Artificial intelligence machineries have been extensively active in human life in recent times. Self-governing devices are enhancing their way of interacting with both human and devices. Contemporary vision in this topic can pave the way for a new process of human-machine interaction in which users will get to know how people can understand human language, adapting and communicating through it. One such tool is voice assistant, which can be incorporated into many other brilliant devices. In this article, the voice assistant will receive the audio from the microphone and then convert that into text, later with the help of ‘pyttsx3', and then the text response will be converted into an audio file; then the audio file will be played. The audio is processed using the voice user interface (VUI). This article develops a functional intelligent personal assistant (IPA) and integrates it with a graphical user interface that can perform mental tasks such as ON/OFF of smart applications based on the user commands.

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