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    • Toward the Construction of an Efficient Set of Robot Arm Operator Performance Metrics 

      Tyler M. Akagi; Robert E. Schlegel; Randa L. Shehab; Kirby Gilliland; Tamy L. Fry; Quintin Hughes (Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2004-09-01)
      As part of a larger project to identify and validate relevant quantitative measures of robot arm operator proficiency, fifteen metrics of arm maneuvering and hand controller performance were defined and measured for 3-DOF ...
    • Tracing the Rise of Ants - Out of the Ground 

      Andrea Lucky; Michelle D. Trautwein; Benoit S. Guénard; Michael D. Weiser; Robert R. Dunn (PLos One, 2013-12-26)
      The evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is increasingly well-understood due to recent phylogenetic analyses, along with estimates of divergence times and diversification rates. Yet, leading hypotheses regarding the ...
    • Training Characteristics of the Criterion Task Set Workload Assessment Battery 

      Robert E. Schlegel; Clark A. Shingledecker (Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1985-10-01)
      An evaluation of the Criterion Task Set was performed to determine the training requirements for the various tasks. Twenty subjects were divided into four groups. One group trained on all nine tasks in the battery. The ...
    • Training Models in Counseling Psychology: Scientist-Practitioner Versus Practitioner-Scholar 

      Cal D. Stoltenberg; Terry M. Pace; Susan Kashubeck-West; Joan L. Biever; Terence Patterson; I. David Welch (The Counseling Psychologist, 2000-09-01)
      Considerable discussion has occurred through the years regarding models of training. With the recent accreditation of counseling psychology programs espousing the practitioner-scholar model, the importance of reexamining ...
    • Training Special Educators to be Consultants: Considerations for Developing Programs 

      Marilyn Friend (Teacher Education and Special Education: The Journal of the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children, 1985-07-01)
      Teacher trainers are currently faced with the task of designing consultation programs for special education teachers. To make these programs contemporary, effective, and relevant for trainees, decisions about their design ...
    • Trait–environment relationships could alter the spatial and temporal characteristics of aquatic insect subsidies at the macrospatial scale 

      Kopp, Darin; Allen, Daniel (2020-12-02)
      Ecological flows across ecosystem boundaries are typically studied at spatial scales that limit our understanding of broad geographical patterns in ecosystem linkages. Aquatic insects that metamorphose into terrestrial ...
    • Transcriptional Regulator PerA Influences Biofilm-Associated, Platelet Binding, and Metabolic Gene Expression in Enterococcus faecalis 

      Scott M. Maddox; Phillip S. Coburn; Nathan Shankar; Tyrrell Conway (PLos One, 2012-04-04)
      Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen and a leading cause of nosocomial infections, traits facilitated by the ability to quickly acquire and transfer virulence determinants. A 150 kb pathogenicity island (PAI) ...
    • Transformative Autoethnography: An Examination of Cultural Identity and its Implications for Learners 

      Brent E. Sykes (Adult Learning, 2014-02-01)
      The cultural experiences of minority learners are often omitted from the formal curriculum leading to exclusion and a sense of cultural loss. In this study, the researcher’s lived experience serves as the basis to develop ...
    • Transient dynamics of terrestrial carbon storage : mathematical foundation and its applications 

      Luo, Yiqi; Shi, Zheng; Lu, Xingjie; Xia, Jianyang; Liang, Junyi; Jiang, Jiang; Wang, Ying; Smith, Matthew J.; Jiang, Lifen; Ahlström, Anders; Chen, Benito; Hararuk, Oleksandra; Hastings, Alan; Hoffman, Forrest; Medlyn, Belinda; Niu, Shuli; Rasmussen, Martin; Todd-Brown, Katherine; Wang, Ying-Ping (2017-01-12)
      Terrestrial ecosystems have absorbed roughly 30 % of anthropogenic CO2 emissions over the past decades, but it is unclear whether this carbon (C) sink will endure into the future. Despite extensive modeling and experimental ...
    • Transient Growth Arrest in Escherichia coli Induced by Chromosome Condensation 

      Andrea L. Edwards; Dipen P. Sangurdekar; Kyeong S. Jeong; Arkady B. Khodursky; Valentin V. Rybenkov (PLos One, 2013-12-23)
      MukB is a bacterial SMC (structural maintenance of chromosome) protein that regulates the global folding of the Escherichia coli chromosome by bringing distant DNA segments together. We report that moderate overproduction ...
    • Transition metal-like carbocatalyst 

      Luo, Zhicheng; Nie, Renfeng; Nguyen, Vy T.; Biswas, Abhranil; Behera, Ranjan K.; Wu, Xun; Kobayashi, Takeshi; Sadow, Aaron; Wang, Bin; Huang, Wenyu; Qi, Long (2020-08-14)
      Catalytic cleavage of strong bonds including hydrogen-hydrogen, carbon-oxygen, and carbon-hydrogen bonds is a highly desired yet challenging fundamental transformation for the production of chemicals and fuels. Transition ...
    • Translating the Knowledge Gap Between Researchers and Communication Designers for Improved mHealth Research 

      Rioux, Charlie; Weedon, Scott; MacKinnon, Anna L.; Watts, Dana; Salisbury, Marlee R.; Penner-Goeke, Lara; Simpson, Kaeley M.; Harrington, Jen; Tomfohr-Madsen, Lianne M.; Roos, Leslie E. (2022-10)
      Our industry insight focuses on the challenges for health researchers collaborating with communication designers during the development of an App for improving maternal mental health and parenting stress. We discuss the ...
    • The Transmogrification of Teacher Education 

      Baines, Lawrence (2006)
    • Transport Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions 

      Jones, Justin; Atiquzzaman, Mohammed (2007)
      Characteristics of wireless sensor networks, specifically dense deployment, limited processing power, and limited power supply, provide unique design challenges at the transport layer. Message transmission between sensor ...
    • Transverse Shear Effects in Bimodular Composite Laminates 

      C.W. Bert; F. Gordaninejad (Journal of Composite Materials, 1983-07-01)
      A closed-form solution for the Timoshenko-type shear correction coefficient (K2) governing the deflection of bimodular composite laminates in cylindrical bending is presented. The bending- stress distribution for a laminate ...
    • A treatment programme for improving story-telling ability: a case study 

      Joan S. Klecan-Aker (Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 1993-06-01)
      The purpose of the present investigation was to measure the effects of a treatment programme on the story-telling ability of a second-grade language/learning-disabled male. Treatment was conducted twice a week for a period ...
    • Tree-Thinking and Acceptance of Evolution in Introductory Biology for Majors 

      Gibson, J. Phil; Hoefnagels, Marielle (2015-08-13)
      Background: Tree thinking refers to an approach to evolution education that emphasizes reading and interpreting phylogenetic trees. We studied the relationship between introductory biology students’ tree-thinking ability ...
    • Trends in Lung Cancer Incidence Rates, Oklahoma 2005–2010 

      Dana S. Mowls; D. Robert McCaffree; Laura A. Beebe (PLos One, 2015-04-22)
      Purpose Lung cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer among men and women in the United States. With cigarette smoking causing the majority of cases, patterns in lung cancer are often monitored to understand ...
    • TRIAGE: A SAS Program of Dissimilarity Data Diagnostics 

      Unknown author (Applied Psychological Measurement, 1987-06-01)
    • A Tripartite Model of Group Identification: Theory and Measurement 

      Kelly Bouas Henry; Holly Arrow; Barbara Carini (Small Group Research, 1999-10-01)
      Group identification is defined as member identification with an interacting group and is distinguished conceptually from social identity, cohesion, and common fate. Group identification is proposed to have three sources: ...