Quantifying the impact of targeted regulation of abortion provider laws on US abortion rates: a multi-state assessment

Contraception ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 374-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nichole Austin ◽  
Sam Harper
Keyword(s):  
State Assessment ◽  
Abortion Provider ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Abortion is an Information Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope E Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Planned Parenthood ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Abortion Provider ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
The Impact

In the years following the 1992 Supreme Court decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, abortion has been subjected to a wide range of legal restrictions, and the impact of these restrictions has not been adequately studied. While this process of increasingly restrictive regulation may be considered a public health issue, the natures of these laws also make them relevant to information studies. Biased counseling laws mandate that an abortion provider disseminate information specifically designed to discourage a woman from obtaining an abortion. This paper examines the impact of these laws on both the abortion patient and provider. Biased counseling information has a demonstrable effect on the health information access of abortion patients and on the intellectual freedom of abortion providers. However, there are also chilling effects on the intellectual freedom of the abortion patients themselves. This paper establishes abortion as an information issue and calls for future study into its effects on information access and intellectual freedom.

scholarly journals The assessment of the environmental impact of the construction project

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 08040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Kataeva ◽  
Ekaterina Berezina ◽  
Alexey Sysolyatin ◽  
Anzhelika Borisova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Project Documentation ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to the research of the main trends and problems concerning the development of measures for the protection and rational use of the environment in Russia as well as the assessment of the environmental impact. The main sources of the regulating and legal information were analysed. As the result of the research, of the analysis and synthesis of these documents, the authors offered the basic methodology for the assessment of the environmental impact of the construction projects. The authors developed some recommendations about contents of the sections of the assessment of the impact of the construction project on the environment. The recommendations presented in the article are useful to all the participants of the investment-and-construction process, for the contractors involved in development of the project documentation, for the employees who carry out the state assessment of the environmental impact of the projects.

Mental state assessment: Specific conditions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Bhugra ◽  
Antonio Ventriglio ◽  
Kamaldeep S. Bhui
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Psychiatric Conditions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Examination

Mental state assessment or mental state examination is important not only in reaching a diagnosis but also in engaging patients and their families and planning therapeutic interventions. In addition to the basic principles of assessment, specific psychiatric conditions require additional details. Working with children and adolescents, with older individuals, and those with intellectual disabilities brings with it special challenges. It is crucial that clinicians are aware of the cultural context of the individual being assessed and that they take care and spend time to carry out the assessment, which may need to continue over a number of sessions. To achieve optimal results and outcomes, good therapeutic alliance is essential. It is critical that clinicians are aware of the impact of culture on the genesis, perpetuation, and prognosis of symptoms. Clinicians must be even more careful when working with special groups and psychiatric disorders, which are described further in this chapter.

A new BRB model for security-state assessment of cloud computing based on the impact of external and internal environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 207-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Wei ◽  
Guan-Yu Hu ◽  
Zhi-Jie Zhou ◽  
Pei-Li Qiao ◽  
Zhi-Guo Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Exploring the Impact of Small-group Synchronous Discourse Sessions in Online Math Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinnie Choi ◽  
Alyssa Walters
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
Math Performance ◽  
Online Learning Environment ◽  
Math Learning ◽  
The Impact

Students in a fully-online learning environment have limited access to opportunities to talk about math problem solving. While discourse is a promising pedagogical model, less is known about how it translates to online math learning. We analyzed online platform data from two fully-online virtual elementary schools in the United States to address the following research questions: (a) Is participating in math discourse about reasoning and problem-solving related to students’ confidence, self-efficacy toward math, and math mindset in an online learning environment? (b) Is participation in math discourse related to math performance? The results showed that (a) repeated participation in the discourse sessions in a course was not directly related with changes in confidence, self-efficacy toward math, and math mindset, and (b) higher numbers of sessions that students participated in was associated with higher performance in final math course score and state assessment results, after controlling for prior performance and confidence, self-efficacy and mindset scores.

scholarly journals Local Impact of State Testing in Southwest Washington

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Mabry ◽  
Jayne Poole ◽  
Linda Redmond ◽  
Angelia Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
High Stakes Testing ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
The State ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
State Testing ◽  
Specific Test ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Southwest Washington

A decade after implementation of a state testing and accountability mandate, teachers' practices and perspectives regarding their classroom assessments and their state's assessments of student achievement were documented in a study of 31 teachers in southwest Washington state. Against a background of national trends and standards of psychometric quality, the data were analyzed for teachers' beliefs and practices regarding classroom assessment and also regarding state assessment, commonalities and differences among teachers who taught at grade levels tested by the state and those who did not, teachers' views about the impact of state assessment on their students and their classrooms, and their views about whether state testing promoted educational improvement or reform as intended. Data registered (1) teachers' preferences for multiple measures and their objections to single-shot high-stakes testing as insufficiently informative, unlikely to promote valid inferences of student achievement, and often distortive of curriculum and pedagogy; (2) teachers' objections to the state test as inappropriate for nonproficient speakers of English, for students eligible for special services, and for impoverished students; and (3) teachers' preferences for personalized assessments respectful of student circumstances and readiness, rather than standardized assessments. Teachers' practical wisdom thus appeared more congruent than the state testing program with measurement principles regarding (1) multiple methods and (2) validation for specific test usage, including usage with disadvantaged subgroups of test-takers. Findings contrasted a distinction of emphasis: state focus on "testing students" as distinct from teachers' focus on "testing students."

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF THE ERROR EFFECT IN SYNCHRONOUS VECTOR MEASUREMENTS OF ANGLES AT VOLTAGES ON ASSESSING THE DUTY PARAMETERS OF ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-45
Author(s):  
Natalia L. Batseva ◽  
Julia A. Foos ◽  
Aleksey V. Pankratov
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Vector Measurement ◽  
Operational Information ◽  
Allowable Error ◽  
Measurement Devices ◽  
Correct Estimation ◽  
The Impact

Telemeasurements and telesignals coming from telemechanics devices to the operational information complex are used as the initial data for solving the problem of state assessment. The disadvantage of telemeasurement chopping is that they do not contain angles at voltages that are necessary for assessing the mode parameters in solving a number of technological problems. Implementing the Transitional Modes Monitoring System has provided opportunities to improve solving the problem of state assessing by the data of synchronous vector measurements coming from synchronous vector measurement devices. However, failures on the satellite channel of synchronous vector measurement devices, as well as high load of communication networks result in errors in the arrays of synchronous vector measurements. The question of accuracy in solving the problem of state assessing at the influence of errors in synchronous vector measurements of angles at voltages on the mode parameters is not fully studied and is at the stage of research. State assessment is done using algorithms based on mathematical methods. The existing algorithms do not make it possible to take into account synchronized vector measurements of angles at voltages and require modification. The article presents a modified algorithm developed on the basis of the Gauss–Newton method, making it possible to use telemeasurements and synchronized vector measurements together, to evaluate the impact errors in synchronized vector measurements of angles at voltages on assessing the mode parameters, to determine allowable error intervals according to conditions of ensuring correct estimation mode parameters, to make the conclusion on advisability to use synchronized vector dimensions of angles in solving the problem of state assessing. The algorithm is tested using computational experiments when evaluating such mode parameters as active and reactive load power, voltage module, power flows. On the basis of studies, the error intervals of angles have been revealed, beyond which taking into account the angles at voltages will contribute to improving the accuracy of state estimation. The parameters of the mode that are the most sensory to the increase of errors in synchronized vector measurements of angles are determined.

Formation of Lunar Craters and Bright Rays as a Result of Meteorite Impacts

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
K. P. Stanyukovich ◽  
V. A. Bronshten
Keyword(s):  
Explosive Charge ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Meteorite Impacts ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Lunar Craters ◽  
The Impact

The phenomena accompanying the impact of large meteorites on the surface of the Moon or of the Earth can be examined on the basis of the theory of explosive phenomena if we assume that, instead of an exploding meteorite moving inside the rock, we have an explosive charge (equivalent in energy), situated at a certain distance under the surface.

The Geosciences Applied to Lunar Exploration

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 169-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Green
Keyword(s):  
Lunar Surface ◽  
Probable Mechanism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lunar Exploration ◽  
Geological Model ◽  
Apply Geophysics ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
The Impact

The term geo-sciences has been used here to include the disciplines geology, geophysics and geochemistry. However, in order to apply geophysics and geochemistry effectively one must begin with a geological model. Therefore, the science of geology should be used as the basis for lunar exploration. From an astronomical point of view, a lunar terrain heavily impacted with meteors appears the more reasonable; although from a geological standpoint, volcanism seems the more probable mechanism. A surface liberally marked with volcanic features has been advocated by such geologists as Bülow, Dana, Suess, von Wolff, Shaler, Spurr, and Kuno. In this paper, both the impact and volcanic hypotheses are considered in the application of the geo-sciences to manned lunar exploration. However, more emphasis is placed on the volcanic, or more correctly the defluidization, hypothesis to account for lunar surface features.

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