Fair Award Research Articles

The advisability of science fair project topic origins: a case study of learners from disadvantaged backgrounds

For learners from disadvantaged backgrounds with limited science fair-related skills, knowledge, and community support, investigating the advisability of various ways of arriving at a science fair project topic is needed. This mixed-methods case study with an ex post facto criterion-group design uses questionnaire data and science fair awards regarding the engagement of 23 grade 9–10 learners in a year-long university-led intervention. Data analysis was conducted for four post-hoc determined topic-origin groups of these learners’ projects: internet, self, adult, and adult after the learner had displayed competence. Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis were used to determine whether each topic-origin group met the advisability criteria regarding learners’ perceptions of value and facilitators’ perceptions of feasibility. Each learner who was provided with a topic by an adult without first having displayed competence through designing a project of their choosing required unfeasibly high levels of facilitator input to remain in the programme. Generally, the greatest success was observed for the learners to whom an adult gave a topic after displaying competence. These findings and how the intervention was conducted are explained in terms of the four paradigms of learning and instructional design. A framework (Instruct-Expose-Explore-Formalise) for deriving science fair topics is suggested to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of similar interventions.

Implementation of Agriscience Fair by Middle School Agricultural Education Teachers

One of the tools middle school SBAE teachers can use to deliver the total program is research-based SAEs, for which students can receive recognition through the FFA Agriscience Fair. This study examined why middle school SBAE teachers implemented the FFA Agriscience Fair into their programs. This study built on previous literature in this area, but with a specific focus on middle school programs. Using a qualitative case study, seven teachers that had various levels of use with Agriscience Fair were interviewed. Teachers were categorized into their levels of use for this innovation and spanned across multiple levels. Major themes from the interviews emerged that found the Agriscience Fair award area was a tool that teachers used to help strengthen their program by enriching the program offering and providing hands-on learning for students. Themes of teachers learning to figure out the complex rules of the competition to be successful as well as using relationships to help students be successful emerged. Recommendations were made to make the award area more intuitive, especially for teachers who are newer to the implementation including providing examples of manuscripts and presentation materials, providing lesson planning resources, and professional development.

Assessment of the company’s motivation system in the employees’ perception – case study

Nowadays, organizations through the appropriate motivational activities create employee behavior. They should apply available material and non-material incentives in a sustainable manner. Therefore, it is necessary to create such a motivation system within the organization’s activity that will generate employees’ right attitudes, beneficial for them and for the entire organization as well. The purpose of the work was to determine the employees’ subjective feelings related to motivational instruments used in the company. The research object was EnergiaPro S.A. with its registered seat in Wroclaw. The basic research technique was a survey, which was carried out anonymously among the employees of the administrative division. Research has shown that the company uses methods of material and non-material motivation. Employees particularly appreciate the system of cash incentives, especially bonuses. It is the motivator for them to work more efficiently. Not without significance for them is also non-cash motivating (training, social allowances and the use of additional leave). They have positive feelings about the correctness of the motivational methods used, although their expectations regarding cash motivation, especially salaries, are higher. They expect wage increases and fair awards, recognizing that this is a major problem in the company.

The Effect of Adopting New Storage Methods for Extending Product Validity Periods on Manufacturers Expected Inventory Costs

The validness of the expiration dates (validity period) that manufacturers provide on food product labels is a crucial food safety problem. Governments must study how to use their authority by implementing fair awards and punishments to prompt manufacturers into adopting rigorous considerations, such as the effect of adopting new storage methods for extending product validity periods on expected costs. Assuming that a manufacturer sells fresh food or drugs, this manufacturer must respond to current stochastic demands at each unit of time to determine the purchase amount of products for sale. If this decision maker is capable and an opportunity arises, new packaging methods (e.g., aluminum foil packaging, vacuum packaging, high-temperature sterilization after glass packaging, or packaging with various degrees of dryness) or storage methods (i.e., adding desiccants or various antioxidants) can be chosen to extend the validity periods of products. To minimize expected costs, this decision maker must be aware of the processing costs of new storage methods, inventory standards, inventory cycle lengths, and changes in relationships between factors such as stochastic demand functions in a cycle. Based on these changes in relationships, this study established a mathematical model as a basis for discussing the aforementioned topics.

Guest Editorial The Past, Present, and Future of Electromagnetic Launch Technology and the IEEE International EML Symposia

This Special Issue of the Transactions in Plasma Science consists of selected papers from the Sixteenth International Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch (EML) Technology, held at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, China, May 15-19, 2012. This biennial symposium is the primary forum for presentation and discussion of research on critical technologies for the acceleration of macroscopic objects using EM or electrothermal-chemical launchers. This symposium was cohosted by the Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies (ISIT) and the China Electrotechnical Society (CES) under the sponsorship of IEEE's Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, was attended by 151 researchers and engineers from 13 countries. The cochairs of the symposium were Dr. Harry Fair (ISIT) and Dr. Jun Li (Beijing Institute of Special Electromechanical Technology). In addition to naming the recipients of the Peter Mark Medal and the First Harry Fair Award, the author reviews the development of EML science and technology during the 1970s and 1980s focusing on the EML Technology Symposium, the first of which was held in San Diego, CA, in 1980. The proceedings were peer reviewed and published as a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. The EML Symposia have been held biennially ever since, and all of the EML Symposia have been published as special issues either of the Transactions on Magnetics or more recently in the Transactions of Plasma Sciences. These 16 IEEE issues form the fundamental science and technology base for EML technology.

The criminal injuries compensation scheme

PurposeThis paper seeks to provide an analysis of historic and current criminal injuries compensation schemes in Great Britain.Design/methodology/approachThe paper aims to explain the nature of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) that administers the present scheme and to identify the qualifying criteria to establish eligibility for awards of compensation and obstacles to success. It deals with the nature and amounts of the awards available, the evidence gathering process, causes of delay and impediments to the achievement of fair outcomes. In the context of cases of serious injury, including acquired brain injury, it examines specific problems that are likely to be encountered and a perceived inadequacy of the compensation available to victims of such injury. The paper considers the involvement of the National Health Service in cases where applications for compensation are made and the possibility that medical professionals might inadvertently hinder the chances of a fair award. The position of local authorities and social services departments is also addressed, as is the danger that proper claims for injured victims might not be identified.FindingsFrom the point of view of the victim of crime who is faced with making an application to CICA, the problems that they face lie with the process, the possibility of being refused on technical grounds, limits on compensation, gaps in the scheme – which might leave victims or their relatives going uncompensated or under‐compensated, and finally the lack of financial support with the cost of representation where it is needed. Of equal concern is the fact that the description of the circumstances of the assault and the injuries suffered can be crucial to ensure that full, proper, and relevant evidence gathering is undertaken. Without suitable skills, it is very easy for the lay applicant inadvertently to mislead, or to give the CICA the opportunity to reject or under‐compensate.Originality/valueThis paper provides a detailed analysis of CICA and reflects upon what the future might hold for injured victims of crime.

Delaware's Corporate Appraisal Statute and Fair Value Standard

Abstract Delaware's corporation law provides stockholders of Delaware corporations with the right to receive the judicially determined “fair value” of their shares in connection with certain corporate transactions. This article provides an overview of the Delaware appraisal statute and appraisal actions brought under it, as well as the standards generally employed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to determine fair value. It also summarizes the rules governing the allocation of fees and costs in an appraisal action, as well as the calculation of post-merger interest on the fair value award.

The NMC ignores us so why should ministers listen?

Nursing Standard editor Jean Gray asks how the government can defend its decision not to implement the report from the pay review body and award nurses a fair award of 2.5 per cent (editorial March 7).

Arbitrator bias and self-interest: Lessons from the baseball labor market

Their desire for enduring employment is commonly assumed to induce arbitrators to make fair awards. We find, however, that in major league baseball's unique institutional setting, selfinterested behavior by arbitrators has led to bias against players and preservation of monopsony rents for team owners. We apply a standard model of arbitrator behavior to all 391 arbitrated cases in baseball since 1979. Under conditions that should lead to an even split in awards to teams and players, probit analysis indicates that arbitrators favor teams 61 percent of the time. Furthermore, bias against African-American and Latinborn players is even more pronounced.

'Nurses are working harder and achieving more, so it is a mystery how the government can feel comfortable about staging the award'

A FAIR award for nursing staff which is also fair to the taxpayer: this is what the pay review body has set out to achieve in recommending a pay increase of 3.8 per cent for nurses, midwives and health visitors. Taken at face value, that seems a fair award. But then the unfairness starts to kick in.

An Experimental Comparison of Dispute Rates in Alternative Arbitration Systems

This paper reports the results of a systematic experimental comparison of the effect of alternative arbitration systems on dispute rates. The key to our experimental design is the use of a common underlying distribution of arbitrator fair awards in the different arbitration systems. This allows us to compare dispute rates across different arbitration procedures where we hold fixed the amount of objective underlying uncertainty about the arbitration awards.There are three main findings. First, dispute rates are inversely related to the monetary costs of disputes. Dispute rates were much lower in cases where arbitration was not available so that the entire pie was lost in the event of dispute. Second, contrary to conventional wisdom, the dispute rate in a final-offer arbitration system is at least as high as the dispute rate in comparable conventional arbitration system. Third, dispute rates are inversely related to the uncertainty costs of disputes. Dispute rates were lower in conventional arbitration treatments where the variance of the arbitration award was higher and imposed greater costs on risk-averse negotiators. Our results can also be interpreted as providing tentative evidence that the negotiators were risk-averse on average.

Hedonic Damages and Personal Injury: A Conceptual Approach

Abstract No abstract available.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WATER AND HUMAN HEALTH1

The following paper was presented by Dr. Abel Wolman at the Plenary Session of the 22nd Annual Conference of the American Water Resources Association in Atlanta, Georgia, November 10, 1986.Dr. Wolman is Professor Emeritus of Sanitary Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University. He was educated at Johns Hopkins and has received an Honorary Doctor of Engineering (1937) and Honorary Doctor of Laws (1969) from his alma mater.Dr. Wolman held a number of positions before joing the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sanitary Engineering (1937–1959). He has served as consultant for many studies and projects, in the United States and overseas, and has a long‐term record of service to communities, states and governments. A long list of awards and honors include the Sedgwick Memorial Award, APHA; Arthur Sidney Bedell Award, WPCF; Hemisphere Award, inter‐American Association of Sanitary Engineers; U.S. Award of the National Medal of Science; Tyler Award, Ecological Society of America; Ben Gurion Award from the State of israel; and the Gordon Maskew Fair Award, WPCA. He is author, co‐author or editor of four books and over 3000 technical publications, most in refereed journals.

Compensation for Surface Rights in Alberta

The authors advocates a new method of assessing compensation under the Alberta Surface Rights Act. This method, termed the "global approach" has found acceptance in the courts, as it has been difficult to give fair awards only using the heads of damages listed in the Surface Rights Act. The authors explain these difficulties and the advantages of the "global approach".

Nevada Senior Wins APhA Science Fair Award

Nevada Senior Wins APhA Science Fair Award

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Minnesota Senior Wins APhA Science Fair Award

Minnesota Senior Wins APhA Science Fair Award

Kansas Senior Wins APhA Science Fair Award

Kansas Senior Wins APhA Science Fair Award

APhA Science Fair Award Winners

APhA Science Fair Award Winners

APhA Science Fair Award Winners

APhA Science Fair Award Winners