Context: Academic programs rely on outcomes assessments to determine if changes in the curriculum are necessary.Objective: To examine the overall satisfaction levels of graduates (2005)(2006) of National Athletic Trainers' Association-accredited postprofessional athletic training education programs as related to the 2002 Standards and Guidelines for Development and Implementation of NATA-Accredited PostProfessional Graduate Athletic Training Education Programs.Design: Original survey instrument and demographic questionnaire.Setting: Online survey instrument. Patients or Other Participants: Of 211 survey recipients, 123 returned surveys (58.29% response rate).Main Outcome Measure(s): Demographic information and satisfaction levels in 10 standard areas (depth of learning, breadth of learning, critical thinking, instructor availability, theoretic basis, writing skills, scholarly growth, community return, leadership, and overall program satisfaction) were obtained. Satisfaction scores were categorized into 10 percentage brackets (eg, 80%-89%) for each standard area.Results: No differences were noted in relation to any of the standard satisfaction areas for evaluation of time off from school. However, graduates who required more than the allotted amount of time to complete their degree were less satisfied in the areas of depth of learning (P 5 .027), breadth of learning (P 5 .001), instructor availability (P 5 .005), writing (P 5 .022), and overall program satisfaction (P 5 .016).Conclusions: Graduates were generally satisfied across all areas of their didactic curriculum. However, satisfaction levels were affected if graduates required more than the allotted amount of time to complete their degrees.Key Words: athletic training education, education, standards Key PointsN In 10 standard satisfaction areas, we found no differences between males and females, graduates of 1-year or 2-year programs, and those who took or did not take time off between completing the bachelor's degree and entering the master's program.N Graduates who required more than the allotted amount of time to complete their degrees were less satisfied than those who completed their degrees on time in the areas of depth of learning, breadth of learning, teacher availability, writing skills, and overall program satisfaction.
Abstract-Many sensor network protocols utilize the existence of disjoint paths (e.g., perfectly secure message transmission or multi-path key establishment), but do not address how a node actually determines these paths in the presence of an adversary. In this paper we investigate what assumptions are necessary to gather information about the local network topology when adversarial nodes are present and capable of lying about their identity or neighbors in the network. These assumptions are practical, and realizable through existing tools such as combinatorial key pre-distribution, fingerprinting, and localization. Our protocols ensure that, except with small probability, if node accepts a path through the network as valid, then each node along that path must be telling the truth about its identity and nodes it can communicate with, so long as a majority of honest nodes are present in the network at each point decisions are made.
Current studies of "messy" broadcasting have so far concentrated on finding worst-case times. However, such worst-case scenarios are extremely unlikely to occur in general. Hence, determining average-case times or tight upper bounds for completing "messy" broadcasting in various network topologies is both necessary and meaningful in practice. In this paper, we focus on seeking the average-case "messy" broadcast times of stars, paths, cycles, and d-ary trees, and finding good upper bounds for hypercubes. Finally, we derive a recursive formula to express the averagecase time for a specific "messy" broadcast model on a complete graph using a classical occupancy problem in probability theory, and provide a nice simulation result which indicates that this model behaves like classical broadcasting.
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