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Students who are receiving RTC services have the option of receiving transcripts of real-time captioning. The typed words that the student sees on its computer monitor during class will be printed out and made available to the student. Transcripts are not a substitute for attendance at classes. |
Some classrooms and auditoriums at UC Berkeley have ALDs that are permanently installed. DSP will loan ALD receivers to hard-of-hearing students on request. They may be checked out for an entire semester. The locations of the classrooms, lecture halls and other facilities that have permanently installed ALDs are posted... |
Portable Assistive Listening Device: |
Portable ALDs are available for loan to hard-of-hearing students for use in campus locations that do not have a permanently installed ALD, on an as needed basis. These portable ALDs may be checked out for an entire semester. |
Notetaking includes recording the main points of what is stated, highlighting important main topics or themes that are emphasized by the instructor, defining new or difficult vocabulary, and organizing the material to best present the class information. Notes are not a word-for-word record of what happens in class. Not... |
ASUC Lecture Notes Online: a note-taking service that provides lecture notes for professor-approved courses. Eligible DSP students receive a ASUCLNO subscription voucher from DSP. |
In-class notetaker (paid): our experience has shown that most students prefer selecting a notetaker from among their classmates. The DSP photocopy machine is available for the photocopying of lecture notes for eligible DSP students. |
In class notetaker (volunteer): some note-takers prefer not to be paid and want to provide their notes on a volunteer basis. The DSP photocopy machine is available for the photocopying of lecture notes for eligible DSP students. |
For in-class notetakers, students have the option of requesting that DSP secure a note taker when they sign up for notetaking services. Students who are having any problems or difficulty are encouraged to contact the DSP Notetaking Consultant. Upon request of the student, DSP will assist the student to secure the servi... |
Notetaking service procedures also are described in DSP's Notetaking Manual, copies of which are available at DSP. |
Letters to Instructors and Professors Notifying Them of Students' Accommodation Needs |
With the permission of the student, DSP will send to the professors and instructors of classes in which the student is enrolled a letter notifying him/her that a deaf or hard-of-hearing student is in the class and of the student's accommodation needs. Instructors and professors are reminded to speak clearly and concise... |
DSP, on its web page, also provides information to professors and instructors on "Teaching Students with Disabilities." This information includes specific instructions and recommendations on how to accommodate the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students (e.g., speaking clearly, and facing students and interpreters a... |
Back-up Services and Accommodations |
If a previously scheduled sign language interpreter or captioner cannot show up for his/her assignment (e.g., calls in sick), DSP will use its best efforts to arrange for a substitute Communication Service provider to cover the assignment. DSP will first attempt to secure the services of the same type of Communications... |
DSP also will provide a hand-held tape recorder for use in class to any deaf or hard-of-hearing student who requests one. In the rare instance in which no such alternative Communication Services providers are available for a particular assignment, DSP will notify the student via e-mail and, as a back-up measure, DSP wi... |
Another "back-up" service available to hard-of-hearing students are the ALDs (in-class and portable) described above. |
V. Requesting Communication Services And Accommodations For Regularly Scheduled Classes And Other Academic Activities |
Students who require Communication Services and/or accommodations are encouraged to register in advance for their classes through Tele-BEARS during their priority enrollment period(s) so that DSP has adequate lead-time to secure effective services. Late requests increase the risk that the provision of services will be ... |
A. Before Classes Begin |
Requests for Communications Services may be made on-line with the use of the DSP's main web page, or by filling out an Auxiliary Service Request form and turning it in to the DSP. |
Please note that if you add a class after you enter your initial request on-line or in writing, you will need to notify the DSP promptly. The DSP will contact the student after it has received his/her Auxiliary Service Request form to confirm that it has been received. It also will contact the student if there is a pro... |
To make requests online, go to the DSP main web page and click the heading "DSP Student Account." Then click the "Request Letters and Auxiliary Services" subheading. The web page indicates what course-related information will be required to secure communication services either on-line or by printed form. |
It is the student's responsibility when requesting communications services to ensure that all information provided is accurate and complete. This includes: course number; course title; indication of lecture, discussion, or lab; days and times the class meets; room number; and the professor's name, if available. A reque... |
All new students who request communications services should meet with the Coordinator of Auxiliary Services at the beginning of the new term to verify schedules and accommodations, review policies and procedures, and receive other guidance and information. |
B. Adding Classes |
Students wishing to add a class are requested to follow the procedures specified for submitting Special Requests. (See Section V, below). |
Students are expected to notify the DSP of any changes in scheduled events for which sign language interpreting or real-time captioning services have been arranged. In particular, to ensure that valuable Communication Service resources are not wasted, we request that you notify the DSP of a cancellation of service at l... |
We acknowledge that it may not always be possible to give the DSP 24 hours' advance notice of an anticipated absence. When a student does not attend a class or other event for which interpreting or captioning services have been scheduled, and has not cancelled that service before the class or event is held, we request ... |
To promote students' ready communication with DSP, DSP will loan a text pager to any regularly enrolled deaf or hard-of-hearing student who is utilizing interpreting or real time captioning services. |
The use of text pagers is intended for communicating time-sensitive information to DSP. For example: |
To notify DSP that you will be arriving late to class or an event for which Communication Services have been scheduled, if the class or event is scheduled for that same day. |
To notify DSP of any last minute changes in assignment location. |
To notify DSP that you will not be attending a class or event for which Communication Services have been scheduled for that same day. |
To notify DSP that an interpreter or captioner has not appeared at a class or event as scheduled. |
You may contact DSP with the text pager at the following: |
For interpreting or transliterating services, interpreting@berkeley.edu |
For real time captioning services, rtc@berkeley.edu |
D. Lateness Policies |
Students who are provided with sign language interpreting, transliteration services and/or real time captioning services are requested to provide at least 24 hours' notice to the DSP if they anticipate that they will be late for class. If any advance notice of anticipated lateness is received by DSP, the regularly assi... |
We recognize that there may be instances in which, due to unavoidable circumstances, a student may not be able to provide advance notice of being late for class. If no advance notice of tardiness is provided, interpreters and captioners will wait for the student's arrival for 15 minutes after the start of class for a o... |
In cases in which the student has failed to provide advance notice of tardiness and does not show up for class within the time outlined above, interpreters and captioners are instructed to return to DSP or to another interpreting or captioning assignment. Students who arrive at class after the interpreter or captioner ... |
VI. Special Requests For Communication Services And Accommodations |
Students who desire Communication Services for academically related activities and events that are not part of their regularly scheduled curricula are requested to notify DSP at least three (3) working days in advance of the event or activity for which the Communication Service is requested. However, the more notice th... |
Such notice may be communicated to the DSP through the following means: |
filling out a printed One-Time Request Form available on-line at the DSP website; |
filling out a One-Time Request Form available at the DSP; and/or |
notifying the Auxiliary Service Coordinator in person, by telephone, or by e-mail. |
VII. Requesting Communication Services And Accommodations For Extracurricular Events And Activities |
It is the policy of DSP, in conjunction with all departments, association and organizations on the UC Berkeley campus, to provide Communications Services for extracurricular activities and events in order to ensure effective communication. The same types of Communication Services available for academically related acti... |
As with Special Requests for Communication Services for academically related activities (See Section IV, above), students are requested to make their request for these services at least three (3) working days before the schedule extracurricular activity or event. However, the more notice provided by the student, the be... |
Communication Services for extracurricular activities may be requested through Campus Access Services. |
VIII. Closed and Open Captioning |
UC Berkeley's practice is to provide closed or open captioning for all videos prepared by the University for student viewing if a deaf or hard of hearing student is enrolled in the class in which the video is to be shown and/or the video is to be shown in more than one class, event or session. In addition, pre-existing... |
Governments now gather almost incomprehensible amounts of information, organize it into vast databases, and make and implement important decisions using algorithms they create or purchase. An algorithm is the step-by-step procedure by which a task is performed. Algorithms used in computers are often highly complex and ... |
Governments use computer algorithms in making tax policy and budget decisions; they use them in forecasting various transportation and infrastructure needs; and they use them in analyzing public health, justice and environmental issues and in formulating policy based on these analyses. Of course, if the data used are l... |
In Connecticut, various state agencies forecast income and expenditures to help guide lawmakers in constructing state budgets. Each of these offices has access to the same data sets. But the assumptions programmed into their algorithms can differ significantly, leading to different outcomes in determining whether a bud... |
To prevent such errors in the future, government algorithms need to be transparent so they can be publicly vetted before policy decisions are made or legislation becomes law. |
The first shots in the battle for algorithmic transparency have already been fired. The New York City Council passed an algorithmic accountability bill, which establishes a task force to study how city agencies use algorithms to make decisions. The bill was enacted in the wake of a racially biased algorithm used to ass... |
Allegheny County Pennsylvania apparently has learned that government can no longer afford to treat algorithms as both secret and the exclusive domain of those who create and use them. According to Dan Hurley in a New York Times Magazine article ("Can an Algorithm Tell When Children Are in Danger?"), the Allegheny Count... |
The child welfare agency then replaced the faulty algorithm with a new one, which it developed with its own independent consultants and which the agency now owns. The algorithm was made available for all to see. Stakeholders – including government officials, technical experts, lawyers, child advocates, parents and even... |
Trade secrets and confidential commercial information often represent a significant financial investment by those enterprises and organizations that create or own them. On the other hand, computer algorithms are now – and increasingly will be – vital components in government policy and other decision making. To prevent... |
In the case of algorithms used by government, proprietary rights face an important competing value when they would prevent the disclosure of information about which there is a legitimate and important public interest. The notion of an informed and knowledgeable electorate is one of the cornerstones of our nation's demo... |
In this instance, the balance of competing interests must be resolved in favor of algorithmic transparency to the greatest extent possible. This is not to say that government need not provide some measure of just compensation to private businesses if government discloses a business' proprietary information. But the bot... |
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Justia Patents Archery BowUS Patent for Bow sight Patent (Patent # 4,823,474) |
A bow sight is disclosed that provides vertical adjustability by movement of a finger of an archer's hand that is holding the bow in a shooting position. The bow sight comprises an elongated housing mountable adjacent a front edge of a bow with an elongated vertical screw member held rotatably by the housing. A sight c... |
My invention relates to bow sights for use by archers. More particularly, my invention relates to bow sights which can be easily mounted upon commercially available bows by archers who wish to increase the accuracy of their archery. Still more particularly, my invention relates to bow sights which are mountable upon bo... |
Bows are customarily sold without bow sights attached thereto. Rather, the archer, if he wishes, selects the bow sight he prefers according to what he believes will best fulfill the needs of his particular use, ability, and equipment from the many kinds of sights presently available. |
Thus, an archer might begin his career by using a bow which does not have a bow sight and essentially rely upon an instinctive feeling for the proper range, timing, windage, and other factors. As he becomes more adept, he might feel that he has reached his ultimate capability of accuracy without a bow sight and consequ... |
With experience, the archer must consider many factors in his judgment of the proper aiming of an arrow. Some of these factors are: innate qualities of the bow, such as the flexibility of the bow in response to atmospheric conditions and the tension of the bow string; the type of arrow he is using, as to weight, struct... |
Theoretically, an archer engaged in archery competition has more time to sight in his target than an archer who is hunting game. The hunter is often surprised by the sudden appearance of the game and forced to make a fast aim with the bow sight. |
Thus, as shown by many patents, a bow sight designed for the archery range might be much more elaborate than a bow sight designed for the hunter where the primary consideration is the need to align the bow sight quickly. |
Several different types of bow sights have been developed, with the most interesting type being bow sights having adjustability of the sight. Bow sights of this type are shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,543,728, and 4,020,560. Nowhere in any of these patents is there any disclosure or suggestion of a bow sight with vertical a... |
Other bow sights that are adjusted by the movement of the archer's finger are shown in U.S. Pats. Nos. 4,497,116, 4,178,693 and 4,555,856. Nowhere in any of these patents is there any disclosure or suggestion of a bow sight having its sight carriage on a screw or helix gear moved vertically by the rotation of the arche... |
Problems encountered in the past with the above types of bow sights are that the bow sights are either not very precise (not accurate in movement or adjustment), are not rugged enough for use in hunting, or are not designed specifically to be operated while the bow is being held in a shooting position. |
There is a need for a bow sight that is precise, rugged and most importantly, able to be adjusted by movement of an archer's finger on the hand actually holding the bow in a shooting position. |
The present invention has been contemplated to overcome the foregoing problems and meet the above described needs. Specifically, the present invention is a bow sight providing quick vertical adjustability of movement of a finger of an archer's hand that is holding the bow in a shooting position. The bow sight includes ... |
The concepts clearly evident in the patents cited above are first of all, those bow sights described above which are intended strictly for tournament competition are very obviously designed to attempt to gain accuracy for the archer at the sacrifice of being able to aim quickly and easily at the target. The hunter must... |
My bow sight is of simple design and provides for fast and convenient sighting adjustment. The hunter can adjust the sighting elements of my bow sight vertically at any time during use, for example, prior to drawing back of the bow string, while he is drawing back on the bow string and preparing to aim at the game, or ... |
I have designed my bow sight to have a knob attached to a screw member upon which the sighting element is positioned. I have positioned the knob beneath a lower flange member of a housing securing the bow sight to the bow. Thus, in this position, the knob is within easy reach of a finger of the hand gripping the bow. T... |
The smooth, easy action of the sighting carriage in cooperation with the screw member permits the hunter to make a fine adjustment of the sighting element at any point within the limitations of the particular bow sight being used. The limitations of the bow sight being used, that is, the adjustability of the bow sight ... |
In preparing to use a bow equipped with my bow sight, a hunter can easily and quickly calibrate the bow sight with regard to current conditions at the hunting site, such as the innate qualities of the bow, the innate qualities of the arrows being used, and the weather conditions. |
The experienced hunter is capable of judging distance very accurately as he is performing the calibration. He also knows very well what the trajectory of his particular arrow will be, and therefore what that trajectory will be in combination with his particular bow. Then, in using this knowledge in conjunction with a f... |
After the hunter has the bow sight properly calibrated and is prepared to shoot the game, he can readily zero in on the game and follow the movement of the game without distraction of any multiple sighting elements, such as multiple beads or windows, or further distraction by being required to move his eyes inordinatel... |
Further features of my bow sight are the capability of the bow sight to be easily converted from a mounting position for a right-handed archer to a mounting position for a left-handed archer, along with the adaptability of my bow sight for use as a means for estimating a distance. |
I have designed my bow sight so that certain embodiments of it can be easily converted from a right-handed model to a left-handed model, and conversely, by simple rearrangement of one or more components; and certain other embodiments can be easily converted similarly by replacement of a bracket securing the bow sight t... |
As mentioned above, an experienced hunter is capable of estimating distance very accurately as he is performing a calibration adjustment with the bow. For example, in performing calibration with my bow, his procedure might be to choose and aim at a point or object which he estimated, or has measured, to be at twenty ya... |
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a bow sight according to my invention showing a portion of a typical bow with the bow sight mounted in proper position. |
FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of the bow sight shown in FIG. 1. |
FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the bow sight shown in FIG. 1. |
FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view of the bow sight shown in FIG. 1. |
FIG. 5 is a side elevational view of the bow sight shown in FIG. 1 showing the opposite side to that shown in FIG. 3. |
FIG. 6 is a top view of the bow sight shown in FIG. 1 showing a portion of the bow in partial phantom. |
FIG. 7 is a front elevational view of a modified form of bow sight according to my invention. |
FIG. 8 is a side elevational view of the modified form of bow sight shown in FIG. 7. |
FIG. 9 is a perspective front view of an alternate embodiment of the bow sight. |
FIG. 10 is a right side elevational view of the bow sight of FIG. 9. |
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