text: Peer Team Report of the Institutional Accreditation of Mahatma Gandhi Vidyamandir's Arts, Science and Commerce College, Manmad. Tal. Nandgaon, Dist – Nashik. (Maharashtra State) Section I PREFACE Mahatma Gandhi Vidyamandir's, Arts, Science and Commerce College, Manmad is one of the pioneer Educational Institutions in the State of Maharashtra, established in June 1969. The College was started as the students had to go to Nashik or Malegaon for higher education, which was not in the capacity of poor people. The College was founded by Late Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hiray, a great visionary and the then Revenue Minister of Maharashtra state. The motto of the institution is the Sanskrit idiom "Bahujana Hitaya; Bahujan Sukhaya", which clearly indicates the aims and objectives of the institution. The main objective behind establishing this college is to provide higher education to rural individuals and to convert their raw minds in to refine responsible citizens and to impart literacy to the downtrodden and the common people in the tribal areas of Nashik District. 1 Right from 1969 the college has undergone various stages of development. From the year 1990-1991, the courses offered by the college have multiplied with the introduction of the faculty of Science. With the establishment of the college, students could get an opportunity of Higher Education at local level. The management of the college has given full freedom in academic and economic matters to the Principal. The college is affiliated to Pune University with 2(f) and 12(B) recognition of the U.G.C. The College has sufficient number of buildings spread over an area of 4.3 acres containing five Science departments, six Arts departments and a Commerce department. There are 22 UG programmes leading to B.A., B.Sc. and B.Com. degrees and one PG programme leading to M.Com. degree. The college has sufficient infrastructure with Library facility. There are 33 qualified teaching and 35 non-teaching staff. The strength of students in the academic year 2002-2003 is 1120 in the UG classes and 52 in the M.Com. Class. Admissions for the current academic year is in progress and the correct number of students can be known in due course. The Local Management Committee in consultation with the Principal plans the annual budget of the college. Additional facilities such as Playground, Workshop, Canteen and Vehicle Parking are also available. Facilities for indoor and outdoor games are also provided. For the all round development of students the College has extra-curricular activities like the NCC, NSS, Earn While You Learn 2 Scheme, Remedial Coaching classes, Debating Competition and Study Center of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University. Majority of the students admitted in the college are from the rural areas. For years together, the College has added to the development of the town and the surrounding rural areas. The Graduates and Post Graduates of the college have been successfully working in State Govt, Semi Govt, and Private Sector Services. Some of them have established their own business organizations and others have devoted themselves to social, cultural and political walks of life. The feedback mechanism is enabled through the Alumni and the parents associations apart from the regular sources. The college has healthy practices such as providing loans and advances to the needy faculty and also scholarship and Book Bank facility for the poor students. The faculty of the college have also published about 30 books and more than 40 research papers in National and International journals. They also have presented papers in National and International conferences. National Assessment and Accreditation Council had deputed a Peer Team comprising of Prof. B. Hanumaiah, Vice Chancellor, Mangalore University (Chairman), Prof. Dr. S. Sevaga Pandian, Principal, Ayya Nadar Janaki Amal College, Sivakasi, Tamilnadu (Member), Dr. S. Ramesh, Prof. And Dean, Postgraduate center, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore (Member) and Dr. Geeta Iyenger 3 (NAAC Officer) to visit the college from 18th July to 20th July 2003 for the purpose of Institutional Assessment and Accreditation based on the Self Study Report submitted on 23rd April 2003. The team visited the college and went through all the departments; it also had discussions with Principal, Management, Faculty, Students, Librarian, Non-teaching staff, Alumni, Parents and other interest groups. The team also inspected all the documents, books and records, facilities, laboratories etc. The team is pleased to present its criterion wise evaluation report of the college. Section II Criterion - Wise Evaluation The institution offers Basic Courses like B.A., B.Sc. B.Com. at the under graduate level and M. Com. at PG level. The options available give a fair amount of lateral movement to the students to shift from one option to another. The objective of the college is to provide higher education to rural students and thereby shaping the individuals in to better personalities. 4 The college encourages co-curricular activities like N.S.S. and N.C.C. and Earn and Learn Scheme. The students are encouraged to involve in cultural activities and thereby awareness is created towards National Integration Patriotism, equality and humanism. The college provides various club facilities which help in the over all development of the students' personality. The college administers questionnaires to the students and parents to obtain feedback to improve the teaching programmes. The faculty has some members of Academic Council and Board of Studies at the University. In each course they offer combinations, which give some freedom of choice and mobility to the students. They have a network with Bharat Petrolium Company, Food Corporation of India and Central Railway Workshop. The students are encouraged to go on industrial visits and to take up project work. About 30 to 40 % of the courses are job oriented. However there are areas of concern such as not obtaining feed back about the programmes from the industry, multiplicity of objectives, dependence only on university curriculam and lack of innovation. The teachers are recruited as per the university, U.G.C and the Govt. norms that ensure fairness and selection of the right 5 individual. The institution has given sufficient freedom to teachers to attend the refresher courses, seminars, workshops that in turn contributes to the development of skill and knowledge of the teacher. The teachers prepare lesson plans and maintain work diaries, which are verified by the H.O.D and the Principal. The teaching is learning oriented and remedial Programmes are conducted for downtrodden under the auspices of UGC. The dropout rate of 3- 15 % though an area of concern, the institution has a Success rate of 50-70 % which reflects fairly well when compared with university average of 40-50 %. The adaptation of UGC feedback form and consultation with parents and guardians provide feedback to the teacher and institution. There is a library housing textbooks, reference books, and encyclopedia. Total No. of volumes of books, encyclopedia etc is 34,739 and the No. of journals including Magazines subscribed is 61. There are certain grey areas such as lack of the use of modern teaching aids, Computers, low student–teacher ratio, limited industrial linkages and co-curricular activities. The institution has 23 % of its faculty involved in the research work. Two teachers possess Ph.D Degrees, six teachers have M.Phil. 6 Degrees, three teachers have submitted the Ph. D. thesis and one teacher is working for his Ph.D. The Extension activities of visits and talks by the teachers for local farmers has spread knowledge and helped the local villagers in better farming techniques, awareness and usage of manures. The institution has four ongoing UGC projects with a total outlay of Rs.1,29,000/-. The institution has contributed to the knowledge fund through books and publications. In all the teachers of the college have published 30 books and 40 research papers. It is worth mentioning here that Dr. Pathak of Marathi Department has published 13 books, out of which 05 have been prescribed as textbooks by five different Universities, 25 research papers in National Journals out of which 02 papers were in International Conferences held at Berlin and Heidelberg. He is also considered to be an authority on "Old Marathi Literature And Kirtan Tradition" at the National Level. Similarly Dr. Jabde of Zoology Department has to his credit 10 books and 12 research papers, out of which one was presented at an International Conference at Rome. There are certain limitations such as limited research publications, no benefit of consultancy to the institution and lack of resources for extension activities. 7 The institution has 18 classrooms and a library with about 34,739 books and 61 periodicals and journals. It has sports facility for basketball, volleyball and tennis. It also provides indoor games facility. An in-house canteen also caters to the needs of the college. The performance of the students in the field of sports within the region has been good. The hostel facility not being availed by the students is being put to good use by the Science Department. The institution conducts regular medical check ups for its entire new students. The areas of concern include lack of inadequate journals, limited land preventing future expansion and lack of staff quarters. Though the teachers research themselves, the availability and use of modern teaching aids and computers at the institution is very minimal. The students are admitted based on merit. The institution has a drop out rate of 3 to 15 %. With a 50-70 % success rate, the institution is doing well to the cause of education. Further progression from Under Graduation to employment or UG to PG is at 30-60 %. Financial aid to students through Govt. schemes, concessions in fees to the students and other provisions have benefited a number of students. Through the Employment Cell and 8 Placement officer students are given guidance. Also teachers give personal and academic counseling to students. The Vocational Center rarely conducts courses for personality development, communication and market survey etc. The recreational facilities available to students in the form of Outdoor games, Nature clubs, Student magazine, Audio-Video facilities, Essay writing Competition, Debate clubs, Cultural Programmes etc, help to hone their skills and prune their knowledge. The college also provides the guidance to the students for self-employment. The Alumni is very active and as far as the cultural activities are concerned there is a Debate club, Nature Club and an Essay Writing Club. The college also publishes the student magazine every year. The areas of concern include high drop out rate of around 3 - 15 %, weak progression rate of around 40 %, lack of indoor sport facilities and limited remedial assistance. The organization functioning is carried out under the supervision of the Local Managing Committee. The day-to-day functioning of the institution is run typically through the departmental structure and through various committee structures. The non-teaching staff is checked and monitored by the Principal, Registrar, and Office Superintendent for their work efficiency and workshops are also 9 conducted for them. The institution has a number of welfare schemes to facilitate its employees through loan facilities and housing. The institution's budgets, expenditure and its accounts are audited. The college organizes professional development programmes for non-teaching staff and also has other welfare programmes such as General Insurance Scheme, Staff Credit Society that provides home loans, vehicle loans and Poor Boys Fund and also Student Insurance Scheme. The grievances of faculty and students are redressed through the grievance cell. The areas of concern include deficit-financing, lack of scientific performance appraisal techniques for appraising teaching and non- teaching staff, low investment in library, lack of modern equipments, lack of resource mobilization and its utilization. Use of new technology for communication and coordination, teaching and learning is also a desirable area for improvement. The institution has been providing vocational education to ensure better personal growth and employment to its students. There are internal checks to monitor faculty and students progress through various committees. The college has N.S.S. and N.C.C. units, which are doing fairly well to enhance the societal values. The college also has Earn While You Learn Scheme. The students of the college take 10 an active part in activities like Road Construction, Tree Plantation, Water Conservation, Health and Hygiene, Blood Donation, AIDS Awareness, Oil Conservation, Environment Awareness and Anti- Superstition Activities. The college offers certificate courses in Computers by engaging a private agency. The areas of concern include review of Vocational Courses, lack of innovation in teaching and lack of ability to learn from the best practices of other institutions. Introduction of complementary system like Self-financing courses, Need based courses may be looked into. While linkages exist for training and industrial visits, the same may also be extended to consultancy projects, sponsorship, industry institution interface etc. Linkage for teaching and research may also be looked into. Use of modern teaching aids is a desirable addition. The institution may have to review its objectives and goals for a better focus of its activities and provision of Education as educator of the Nation. Section- III OVERALL ANALYSIS Mahatma Gandhi Vidaymandir's Arts, Science and Commerce College at Manmad is founded by the management to cater to the educational need of the poor rural people, S.C. & S.T students in Nashik Dist. The management and the Principal with his team of faculty and the non-teaching staff are taking keen efforts to 11 develop the college. The management is providing some financial assistance where government fund is insufficient. The college is under government grant-in-aid. Facilities provided to carry on the higher education in Manmad is commendable though there are some limitations. The governing body, principal and faculty take adequate interest in the overall development of the institution. The problems pertaining to the learning processes are attended immediately. Their efforts are evident from the following : 1) Curricula prescribed by the Pune University have been followed and there is freedom for horizontal and vertical mobility. However, vertical mobility is possible only in the Commerce through M. Com. 2) Moderately good examination results reveal the effective teaching and learning in the campus. 3) Although all the departments are doing well in teaching learning and evaluation, it is worth considering the efforts of the departments of Zoology, Botany and Marathi in the field of research, publications and extension activities. 4) The department of Botany is maintaining a Botanical garden and the department of Zoology is under taking vermiculture. 5) The socio-economic development activities taken up by NSS and NCC deserves appreciation. 6) The involvement of alumni for the development of the college is also significant. 12 7) Computerization of library and office automation is under progress. 1. The college could offer Vocational and Job Oriented Courses such as Biotechnology, Microbiology, Business Management, and Computer Application Courses at the graduate level. P.G. Courses in Marathi, English, Botany and Special Zoology disciplines may also be considered, as there is good demand potential. 2. There is a pressing need for a well-equipped computer lab. with required software. Further each department be provided a computer. Even more a practical Lab. with adequate computer facility may also be provided to M.Com. students. 3. The college could offer Personality Development Courses to supplement the curricular programmes. 4. Sport facilities in various games and multi-gym may be provided to give more opportunity for the budding sport persons studying in the college. 5. There is also a felt need by the students, parents and alumni to teach different courses in English medium. This could be done either by training the existing faculty to teach in English medium or appointing a few teachers with good knowledge of teaching in English. 6. The English department has a key role to play not only in the above stated respects but also in organizing Spoken English 13 Workshop for most of the students who find it difficult even to converse in English. 7. The N.S.S. and N.C.C. student needs special attention since they may have to miss regular classes to attend various camps and other programmes. They may be provided with special classes to compensate for the losses. 8. The laboratories in the college are very small in size and inadequately equipped. Hence, size of the laboratories and equipments need to be increased further. The teachers in the Science departments need to be provided with separate staff rooms. 9. It is noticed that there is only one lady teacher as against girl students strength of 30 %. Some more lady teachers may either be appointed in future or transfers could be effected from sister institutions. 10. It is found that there are only few teachers with Research Degrees. Hence, all the teachers may be encouraged to persue Research Degrees. Further, the teachers may be guided and encouraged to take up U.G.C. and other projects. 11. Although the library is well maintained with reasonable volumes of books and journals, there is a need to increase the volumes and also provide for videotapes, CD's and audiotapes. The size of reading room with adequate furniture needs to be expanded to accommodate at least 300 students at a time. Old volumes of books journals and periodicals be preserved in the library 14 itself. Stock verification of library be conducted once in a year by the teachers of the respective departments and duly certified by them. 12. The Botanical garden maintained by Botany department deserves support and encouragement, so also is the effort of Zoology department in vermiculture. They may be helped to get necessary financial assistance especially from funding agencies for improvement and maintenance. 13. Adequate and separate toilets for boys, girls and the staff be provided with uninterrupted water supply at desirable level of hygiene. 14. Whenever the salary payments are delayed by the government for the aided staff, the college management may provide a short term loan equivalent to the amount of salary till such time the government sanctions it and such loans may be recovered from the staff as soon as the salaries are sanctioned by the government. While going through the performance of the college, it is noticed that the college has many strengths such as fair infrastructure, committed faculty, enduring Management and sincere students. However, it suffers from certain limitations such as limited interest and resources for research, lack of 15 adequate research publications, inadequate computer facilities, lack of innovation in teaching and evaluation. On the whole, inspite of its limitations, the college has done fairly well with all its limiting factors of being located in a rural place. We are sure that it has potential to grow by bringing in the required changes stated in the suggestions. The committee likes to place on record the warmth and hospitality extended by the college. It sincerely thanks the Management, Principal, Teaching and Non-teaching Staff, Students, Parents and Alumni for their wholehearted co- operation. The Committee specially thanks the Coordinator Dr.Pathak for his support and coordination and wishes the college the very best in its noble endeavour of providing quality education to rural masses. Further the committee thanks Dr. Geeta Iyengar, NAAC Officer for coordinating the entire process effectively during its visit. 16 17


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The focus of the "Geeks" tour was on the rapidly-growing Kiwi cluster of seed technology companies—niche firms advancing new ideas that solve big corporate and consumer problems.
In particular, New Zealand companies are becoming known for solutions for the cloud computing industry, developing user-friendly technology that has attracted clients including Nike, Boeing and Chrysler. New Zealand technology companies have made their mark internationally by focusing on solving problems in specific areas. A few examples include:
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Military Basing and Climate Change
Climate change poses significant long-term national security threats to the United States. Drought, severe storms, floods, and altered natural resource availability are just some of the consequences of climate change.
However, not only will the effects of climate change threaten civilian populations, but they will also put U.S. military installations at risk.
The U.S. military manages properties in all 50 U.S. states as well as in 40 countries around the world. These bases may be subjected to economic and physical damage, threatening the effectiveness of their operations.
The American Security Project put together this fact sheet, "Military Basing and Climate Change," which details the five military bases around the world that are most vulnerable to climate change. To read more, check out the full " Climate Security Report," from which the fact sheet was adapted.
You can read the whole of the Climate Security Report here.
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Course Content and Outcome Guide for MTH 84
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- Introduction to LaTeX
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Course DescriptionExplores the power of LaTeX for use at school or home for mathematical documents and other applications.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the class a student will be able to:
• successfully install LaTeX and its related components on a home/personal computer
• use a familiarity with LaTeX and various templates acquired from the course to compose Mathematical documents", presentations, reports
• access various resources, such as http://ctan.org, to obtain additional LaTeX packages.
Course Activities and Design
Assessment must include:
- attend 80% or more of class meetings for pass consideration
At least one of the following:
- weekly document assignments
- portfolio of templates
- in class group work
- cumulative assignment
- level specific assignment (e.g lab write up for MTH 251)
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Set up and compiling options
- installing LaTeX, ghostscript, ghostview, and an IDE
- pdflatex
- Simple documents
- simple equations
- abeling and referencing equations
- titles, authors, page numbers
- font sizes and styles, page sizes, line spacing (using geometry package)
- itemize, enumerate, \bf, \em, fancyhdr
- hyperlinks in pdf files (using hyperref package)
- interpreting .log files
- fixing mistakes
- More advanced features
- advanced equations and equation arrays
- new commands
- new environments, counters, theorems
- align equations left/right, change spaces between equations in equation array (\jot)
- color package
- installing new packages (using mktexlsr for example)
- Figures and tables
- including pictures and figures (.bmp, .jpg, .eps, etc)
- tables
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- rotatebox
- minipages, multicols
- Advanced documents (such as projects, thesis)
- sections, sub sections
- table of contents (toc), list of figures (log), list of tables (lot)
- refcheck (using refcheck package)
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Many Antlers guests have asked about "mountain roller coasters". Vail doesn't have one at the moment, but we are working on it. But if you are in the Vail Valley for a week or so, many guests will visit Glenwood Springs Caverns and fun park which has a cave tour, bungey jumping, a mountain roller coaster, food, games, and more. Here is a quick clip of Darci and Amy from the front desk riding the roller coaster this past spring.
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yes!! i had my son jan 21st and had 2nd degree tearing all the way down. ive had problems with anal fissures ever since then because the scar tissue doesnt stretch. Did you notice alot of bleeding? ive bled for 2 weeks straight every time i passed a bowl movement. Stool softener helps, and dont eat alot of cheese and hopefully yours will heal soon. Ive done tons of research about them and this area takes forever to heal since the blood flow around the inside lining of the anal canal is very limited.
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No experience with baby having them but I did after DS was born, I had the most hirrible pain after BM's went to the Dr and found out my 4th degree tear also included anal fissures. I was on stool softners until it healed. It took a year.
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Mine just had it's first anniversary. I didn't get it from having DD but from a cryo treatment from complications. Doc rested his hand in the wrong place!! Well, not right where you are thinking, but enough on the side to cause it. It is sooo painful.
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Provides an updated list of food safety publications from the ARS Food Safety National Program (NP 108). Click on the title to find the abstract or full-text article. View pending publications from this program.
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Quantitative analysis of staphylococcus enterotoxin A by differential expression of IFN-γ in splenocyte and CD4⁺ T-cells
Rasooly R, Hernlem BJ.
Sensors (Basel). 2014 May 20;14(5):8869-76.
Sensors (Basel). 2014 May 20;14(5):8869-76.
Targeted surface expression of an exogenous antigen in stably transfected Babesia bovis
Laughery JM, Knowles DP, Schneider DA, Bastos RG, McElwain TF, Suarez CE.
PLoS One. 2014 May 19;9(5):e97890.
PLoS One. 2014 May 19;9(5):e97890.
Developmental Biology of Cystoisospora (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae monozoic tissue cysts)
Lindsay DS, Houk AE, Mitchell SM, Dubey JP.
J Parasitol. 2014 May 19. [Epub ahead of print]
J Parasitol. 2014 May 19. [Epub ahead of print]
Maternal and fetal immune response patterns in heifers experimentally infected with Neospora caninum in the second trimester of pregnancy - A descriptive study
Almería S, Serrano-Perez B, Darwich L, Araujo RN, Lopez-Gatius F, Dubey JP, Gasbarre LC.
Vet Parasitol. 2014 May 16. [Epub ahead of print]
Vet Parasitol. 2014 May 16. [Epub ahead of print]
Fate of antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance genes in simulated swine manure storage
Joy SR, Li X, Snow DD, Gilley JE, Woodbury B, Bartelt-Hunt SL.
Sci Total Environ. 2014 May 15;481:69-74.
Sci Total Environ. 2014 May 15;481:69-74.
Production of trichodiene by Trichoderma harzianum alters the perception of this biocontrol strain by plants and antagonized fungi
Malmierca MG, McCormick SP, Cardoza RE, Alexander NJ, Monte E, Gutierrez S.
Environ Microbiol. 2014 May 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Environ Microbiol. 2014 May 12. [Epub ahead of print]
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Toxoplasma gondii merozoite gene expression analysis with comparison to the life cycle discloses a unique expression state during enteric development
Behnke MS, Zhang TP, Dubey JP, Sibley LD.
BMC Genomics. 2014 May 8;15:350.
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Nothing goes right for boys at Ainsworth
Poor shooting hampers Swedes.
AINSWORTH—Gothenburg's boys knew they had to defend Ainsworth's perimeter shooting Friday night.
So rather than playing their usual sagging help defense, the Swedes stuck closer to the three-point line.
Still, the Bulldogs savored their home-court advantage and stung the Swedes with their outside shots winning 66-44.
"We did everything in practice last week that Ainsworth did on the floor," said Gothenburg coach Kent Koehn. "We knew they'd shoot the three and we knew they'd look inside to their big guy."
Still the Swedes couldn't stop the Bulldogs.
Three of Ainsworth's first four buckets were three-pointers.
"I think maybe we've ingrained our style of defense so deeply that it isn't easy for them to make changes," Koehn said.
At the same time, Koehn said the Swedes were exposed on offense.
Senior scoring leader Landen Haake made the first seven points for the Swedes. He finished the game with seven.
"Ainsworth went to a box-and-one on Landen and we couldn't get him the ball," Koehn said. "You don't prepare for a gimmick defense. Not many teams play them anymore but that's what I would do against us."
Down 35-17 at halftime, Koehn told his boys to shoot more.
Ainsworth made the first two buckets of the second half to push the gap to 22 points but with three minutes to play in the third quarter, Gothenburg had closed to single digits.
"Our defense picked up and we got some steals and some easy buckets," Koehn said.
The run didn't last, though, as Ainsworth closed out the third period with another three-pointer and a layup to take a 48-35 lead.
The Swedes got outscored 18-9 in the fourth quarter.
"It's disheartening the way we played defense," Koehn said. "We gave up 66 points. We haven't given up 66 points all season."
At the same time, the Swedes shot 15-of-71 for a 21% field goal percentage.
"We jacked the ball up 71 times and only made 15," Koehn said. "That's a terrible percentage."
Joel Teahon finished with 11 points and Mark Hilderbrand added eight. Patrick Reeves was the rebounding leader with six.
Gothenburg has one game remaining in the regular season. The Swedes, now 7-10, host Ogallala (9-9) Friday night.
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A Two-Dimensional Markov Model for Cross-Layer Design in AMC/ARQ-Based Wireless Networks
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Now-a-days, there are lots of research efforts focusing on cross-layer designs combining Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) with an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol. One of the main drawbacks of these research works is that they rely on first-order Amplitude-based Finite-State Markov Chains (AFSMC) to model the wireless fading channel. Furthermore, most of the analytical models used in these works present several deficiencies that could compromise the design of cross-layer protocols. To overcome the aforementioned problems, in this paper the authors propose a novel cross-layer analytical framework that is based on both the use of a first-order two-dimensional Markov model and a judicious implementation of the AMC threshold searching algorithm used in the Transmission Mode (TM) selection.
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The Purgatory Bowl
So it's Gary Barnett and his Colorado Buffaloes going against Mike Price and his Texas-El Paso Miners in the EV1.Net Houston Bowl on Dec. 29. Or, as we like to think of it around the old campfire, the Crawled Through Glass Shards Just to Stand Here and Smile Like a Madman Bowl.
Or, as Price put it in Houston this week while speaking of the year or so just passed, "I understood a lot of what he [Barnett] was going through, and he understood a lot of what I was going through."
Which, if nothing else, surely makes it the EV1.Net Coachin' Empathy Bowl.
All that being said, I'm not sure the situations compare. In fact, there's almost no question that the situations barely compare at all. Price was run off the job at Alabama without ever coaching a game, due exclusively to allegations of his own improper behavior in a situation that involved sleaze, booze and strippers -- but not the football team.
Barnett's problems, of course, have not only involved the Colorado football program but also have been felt at levels well above him. The reverberations are still pinging off the walls.
As Barnett met the media in Houston this week, in fact, it was announced that Richard Byyny, the chancellor at Colorado's Boulder campus, was resigning to become director of a health policy center at the university's hospital in Aurora. Byyny is a physician and well qualified for the new job, none of which did much to dissipate the chatter that he was resigning under seige, just as athletic director Dick Tharp had done in the month before him.
So you wouldn't call Price's alleged indiscretions quite the same as what has occurred on Barnett's watch at Colorado, a stint that has included accusations of wild recruiting parties and sexual assaults by players, the coach's suspension and subsequent reinstatement, shady booster dealings and all manner of bad karma flowing through Boulder.
For that matter, the paths to a better future for the two 58-year-old men, who have known each other through coaching circles for more than a quarter-century, aren't necessarily made of the same material.
Price already is on the upswing, and with each step he removes himself from the embarrassing Alabama episode that in time might come to be viewed as a mere blot on his résumé.
He took UTEP to an 8-3 record and nearly doubled the school's home attendance. He got the Miners on a seven-game win streak that didn't end until Tulsa upset them in the regular-season finale. He is a finalist for the Bear Bryant Coach of the Year Award and generally credited with making UTEP football matter after years of irrelevance.
I don't know what he does for an encore, but in taking a program that had won two games the season before and turning it into a legitimate bowl entry, Price certainly has demonstrated that his Alabama debacle did not cause him to forget how to coach -- or focus.
That contract was supposed to be amended to make Barnett more "accountable" for the football problem, but the Rocky Mountain News reported this week that no such language to that effect has yet been inserted. University officials say the change is forthcoming, but it is fair to wonder whether the language has any meaning beyond sheer legal netting.
At this point, the one thing Barnett can do that is not controversial -- so long as he wins, of course -- is coach. And he did so in 2004, getting Colorado to a 7-4 record and the Big 12 North Division title.
That division's comparative ineptitude was demonstrated in the Buffs' subsequent 42-3 pasting by South champ Oklahoma in the Big 12 title game, but by then Barnett and his players had done enough to get the bid to Houston. There he finds himself standing shoulder to shoulder with his old friend, Mike Price, a man who at least knows a little bit about what it feels like to have the world watching and sitting in judgment.
During their news conference in Houston this week, the two coaches allowed that they had spoken to one another last spring, comparing tumults, offering mutual encouragement, talking shop. Barnett said of Price, "I know what he stands for." Price said he and Barnett supported each other "100 percent."
And there you have it: The 100 Percent Support Bowl, brought to you by the Coaching Friendship Network. At the very least, you could say it is nice to have these men's paths cross at a football game, as opposed to just about anywhere else.
Mark Kreidler is a columnist with the Sacramento Bee and a regular contributor to ESPN.com. He can be reached at email@example.com .
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The authors examined a nationally representative group of young people (ages 12 to 25) and their families, assigning them to a clinical high-risk (CHR) or low-risk group based on the severity of their psychosis symptoms. The CHR group received at least one year of FACT, while low-risk families received monthly phone monitoring and had the option of community care.
The study included 337 young people. Eighty-six percent of the CHR group and 78 percent of the low-risk group met the SCID-IV criteria for an axis I disorder at baseline. Close to equal proportions of each group had been hospitalized, received prior outpatient treatment, and had been treated with antipsychotic drugs.
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