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This book discusses special education for students with disabilities and the role of the principal in meeting the needs of students with disabilities. An introductory chapter lists strategies to assist principals in improving the working conditions of special education teachers, how a principal can be the chief advocate for the special education program, and how principals can enhance the inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms. It also discusses how principals can improve the use of a building and make it accessible to all students and how principals can encourage the inclusion of students with disabilities in extracurricular activities. Following chapters address: (1) federal laws affecting special education, including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); (2) the Individualized Education Program and the principal's role; (3) discipline of students with disabilities and requirements under IDEA; (4) evaluation of students with disabilities; (5) the history of inclusion, federal regulations governing inclusion, and the continuum of alternative placements; (6) classroom accommodations for elementary students with disabilities; (7) classroom accommodations for secondary students with disabilities; (8) due process in special education; and (9) selecting and evaluating special education staff. An appendix lists additional resources for each chapter. (CR)

Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a teacher. He's a poet. He has a new teaching job in Kamloops, BC. Stephen has HIV. DR SAD is the story of one man's journey across Canada and through his diagnosis. It is the story of the distance between queer urban spaces and a small campus in a small city in small-town BC. It is the story of discovering the self within the world, and the world within the self, of discovering the difference between living a life and simply enduring one. This is a tragicomic cross-campus, cross-country romp that believes in the power of romance. Weaving together narratives of past and present, of Toronto's Gay Village and the streets of Kamloops, BC this lively and dynamic semi-autobiographical novel dives deeply into gender and queerness, class and privilege, and the realities of aging. It is a dynamic and engaging hybrid, stylistically daring while remaining intimate and human. Leaping through time and mixing the playfully serious with the seriously playful, DR SAD blends poetry with prose and finds the humour in despair in one complete, glittering tragedy of triumph

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is one of the most common malformations causing refractory epilepsy. Dysregulation of glutamatergic systems plays a critical role in the hyperexcitability of dysplastic neurons in FCD lesions. The pharmacoresistant nature of epilepsy associated with FCD may be due to a lack of well tolerated and precise antiepileptic drugs that can target glutamate receptors. Here, for the first time in human FCD brain slices, we show that the established, non-competitive α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor antagonist, perampanel has potent antiepileptic action. Moreover, we demonstrate that this effect is due to a reduction in burst firing behavior in human FCD microcircuits. These data support a potential role for the treatment of refractory epilepsy associated with FCD in human patients.

This research focuses on the forms of exclusion that democratizing processes have historically facilitated. The dynamics of democratization often lead political coalitions to change electoral rules to simultaneously extend and constrict the right to vote across different categories of persons, as well as to reinforce existing exclusions. This pattern occurred in all the 'exemplary models' of early democratization, and yet the historical narratives relied on by the comparative democratization literature neglect its exclusionary dimension, and thereby misinform comparative theory building. The dissertation empirically documents the "dark side of democratization" in the three paradigmatic cases of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, and develops and tests a theory explaining cross-national and cross-time variation. At key moments in a country's development, political entrepreneurs advance ideas of community belonging for the purpose of securing a governing coalition. When successful the ideas of political community are embedded in new institutions and in public opinion, shaping the expectations of political agents across the political spectrum and resulting in higher costs of coalition-building and political mobilization across categories of people. The exclusions were thereby made resilient to subsequent democratizing processes. The dissertation advances research the role of ideas in social science by focusing on the micro-foundations of democratic exclusion. The model predicts various of political behavior that are integrally important to democratization, and is tested against debates, voting behavior, and correspondence in and outside of parliaments, legislatures, and constitutional conventions. The data draws on archival field work research, multiple datasets of legislator behavior, constituency demographics, and institutional change. These allow for the identification of stable patterns as well as change across time, and supplement a process tracing

With the use of tow-tank experiments, data may be generated for ships of various classes using comprehensive instrumentation. This data gives the ability to determine the response of ships to various sea-state conditions far in advanced of their construction and launch. However, this data does not indicate the effects of those sea-states to the individuals aboard that ship. In order to define these effects a sea-state simulator must be designed and built. Once construction is completed a series of test must be conducted to determine the response of the simulator. This response allows the comparison to actual tow-tank data to determine if the simulator is capable of performing the desired research.

This manual is the definitive guide to GNU Octave, an interactive environment for numerical computation. The manual covers the new version 3 of GNU Octave.

Can unique protein structures arise from a limited set of amino acids present on the prebiotic Earth? To address this question, we have determined the stability and structure of KIA7, a 20-residue polypeptide containing chiefly Lys, Ile, and Ala. NMR methods reveal that KIA7 tetramerizes and folds on the millisecond time scale to adopt a four-helix X-bundle structure with a tightly and specifically packed core. Denaturation studies and hydrogen exchange measurements of KIA7 and several variants demonstrate that ridges-into-grooves packing of Ala and Ile side chains and the packing of a C-terminal aromatic group into the hydrophobic core are sufficient to give rise to a rather stable, well folded protein structure, with no favorable electrostatic interactions or tertiary or quaternary hydrogen bonds. Both modern proteins and RNAs can adopt specific structures, but RNAs do so with a limited "alphabet" of residues and types of stabilizing interactions. The results reported here show that specific, well folded protein structures can also arise from a highly reduced set of stabilizing interactions and amino acids that are thought to have been present on the prebiotic Earth.

There are many classes of mathematical problems which give rise to matrices, where a large number of the elements are zero. In this case it makes sense to have a special matrix type to handle this class of problems where only the non-zero elements of the matrix are stored. Not only does this reduce the amount of memory to store the matrix, but it also means that operations on this type of matrix can take advantage of the a-priori knowledge of the positions of the non-zero elements to accelerate their calculations. A matrix type that stores only the non-zero elements is generally called sparse. Until recently Octave has lacked a full implementation of sparse matrices. This article address the implementation of sparse matrices within Octave, including their storage, creation, fundamental algorithms used, their implementations and the basic operations and functions implemented for sparse matrices. Mathematical issues such as the return types of sparse operations, matrix fill-in and reordering for sparse matrix factorization is discussed in the context of a real example. Benchmarking of Octave's implementation of sparse operations compared to their equivalent in Matlab are given and their implications discussed. Results are presented for multiplication and linear algebra operations for various matrix orders and densities. Furthermore, the use of Octave's sparse matrix implementation is demonstrated using a real example of a finite element model (FEM) problem. Finally, the method of using sparse matrices with Octave's oct-files is discussed. The means of creating, using and returning sparse matrices within oct-files is discussed as well as the differences between Octave's Sparse and Array classes.

This paper announces the availability of a fixed point toolbox for the Matlab compatible software package Octave. This toolbox is released under the GNU Public License, and can be used to model the losses in algorithms implemented in hardware. Furthermore, this paper presents as an example of the use of this toolbox, the effects of a fixed point implementation on the precision of an OFDM modulator., Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure

Booklet featuring five artists from Winnipeg. Dempsey reflects on modern consciousness (the desire for information paired with a sense of apathy) and the community/climate of Winnipeg, to provide a context for the works. She calls attention to how seductiveness and beauty are undermined by complex issues relating to the body. Bateman situates the works within the context of Dempsey's practice (as artist and curator), exploring narrative, transformation and deconstructing "monstrosity." Includes statements by the artists. Biographical notes. 5 bibl. ref.

Middle Rio Grande fuels reduction study 2004 annual report

Catalogue made to accompany a retrospective exhibition of Cockshutt's theatre clothing designs. Langill's interpretive essay and interview foreground the surreal aspects of Cockshutt's costumes and constructions, calling attention to how they transgress boundaries between fiction and reality. Includes brief texts by four theatre workers who have collaborated with the artist. List of works. Biographical notes on artist. 5 bibl. ref.

The noise generating mechanisms of axial flow compressor blades were investigated using flat blades to facilitate mathematical analysis. Analytical expressions are given for evaluating the compressor noise due to blade thickness, loading and vortex shedding. Measured values of compressor noise show good agreement with those analytically predicted. It was found that lift or loading noise dominates over blade thickness and vortex noise. Rotor-stator spacing and clearance between the rotor blade tips and the duct are important parameters in the generation of rotor noise. (Author)