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Combat-Ready Crew Performance Measurement System. Phase IIIA. Crew Performance Measurement

Abstract : Research for the improvement of combat-crew training, and the efficient execution of current training programs, are heavily dependent upon good sources of information about trainee performance during and at the end of training. In an effort to improve training performance information, this study is directed to systematic definition of performance and development of methods for measurement. In accordance with the initial definition of this study, emphasis was placed on pilot performance, but it was soon recognized that avoiding the performance contributions of other crew members, and the interaction between crewmembers, had more serious consequences than desired. To correct this problem, additional tasks were undertaken; in particular, additional data collection visits were made. The original efforts included visits related to A-7, F-4, F-106, B-52, C-141, C-130 combat-crew training units. The current effort involved follow-up analyses on the F-4E and C-141A to provide additional data on fighter and heavy-multi-engine aircraft. (Author)
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In this paper, we help reflect on the units of analysis on which to base the teaching of vocabulary. To this, we start from the conviction that the teaching of foreign students lexicon has to focus on the study of lexical units and not be limited to words. So then after identify and explain the types of relevant teaching E/LE lexical units, present the advantages of teaching vocabulary from lexical units.
Lead‐Free Perovskite Derivative Cs2SnCl6−xBrx Single Crystals for Narrowband Photodetectors

Lead‐free and stable Sn halide perovskites demonstrate tremendous potential in the field of optoelectronic devices. Here, the structure and optical properties of the “defect” perovskites Cs2SnCl6−xBrx are reported, as well as their use as photodetector materials. Millimeter‐sized Cs2SnCl6−xBrx single crystals are grown by the hydrothermal method, with the body color continuously changing from transparent to yellow and finally to dark red. Narrowband single‐crystal photodetectors using Cs2SnCl6−xBrx crystals are presented, which show a high detectivity of ≈2.71 × 1010 Jones, with narrowband photodetection (full‐width at half‐maximum ≈45 nm) and high ion diffusion barriers. Moreover, the response spectra are continuously tuned from near violet to orange depending on the variation of the bandgap of the single crystals by changing the halide compositions. The strong surface charge recombination of the excess carriers near the crystal surfaces produced by short wavelength light elucidates the narrowband photodetection behavior. This work provides a new paradigm in the design of lead‐free, stable, and high‐performance perovskite derivatives for optoelectronics applications.
Conceptual Model of the Education Management Information System for Higher Education Institutions

This paper describes the role and features of using automated information systems in the activities of higher educational institutions, as well as an overview of existing information systems in the field of education. The concept and approaches of introducing electronic education information services for students, teachers and administrative staff, as well as the information system of higher education management in the Republic of Uzbekistan, are described. The higher education management information system covers all tasks related to the administrative, academic, scientific, financial and economic activities of educational institutions. The paper considers the particular characteristics of the education management and processes in Uzbekistan. Accordingly, the re-engineering of the business processes and workflow of the administrative and managerial aspects are designed. Finally, current research wraps up that traditional education management processes can be transferred to the e-services using promising opportunities of the information systems.
Tangible user interface input: tools and techniques

Tangible user interfaces (TUIS) augment the physical world by integrating digital information with everyday physical objects. Developing tangible interfaces is problematic because programmers are responsible for acquiring and abstracting physical input. This is difficult, time-consuming, and requires a high level of technical expertise in fields very different from user interface development—especially in the case of computer vision. Consequently, only a small cadre of technology experts can currently build these uis. Based on a literature review and structured interviews with TUI researchers, we created Papier-Mâche, a toolkit for building tangible interfaces using computer vision, electronic tags, and barcodes. Papier-Mâche introduces high-level abstractions for working with these input technologies that facilitates technology portability. We evaluated this toolkit through a laboratory study and longitudinal use in course and research projects, finding the input abstractions, technology portability, and monitoring facilities to be highly effective. This dissertation contributes new software tools and interaction techniques for tangible user interface input. It comprises Papier-Mâche, a toolkit for building tangible UIS; Books with Voices, a system providing barcode-augmented paper transcripts for random access to digital video; and The Designers' Outpost, a tangible UI for collaborative web site design. Papier-Mâche's design has been deeply influenced by my experiences building physical interfaces. Web designers use pens, paper, walls, and tables for explaining, developing, and communicating ideas during the early phases of design. These practices inspired The Designers' Outpost. With Outpost, users collaboratively author web site information architectures on an electronic whiteboard using physical media (Post-it notes and images), structuring and annotating that information with electronic pens. This interaction is enabled by a touch-sensitive electronic whiteboard augmented with a computer vision system. We conducted several studies of this system that validated that Outpost supports information architecture work practice and led us to develop support for design history, remote collaboration, and fluid interoperability with other design tools. The second major TUI we developed focused on oral historians. While oral historians consider interview recordings a central historical artifact, these recordings sit unused after a written transcript is produced. We hypothesized that this is largely because books are more usable than recordings. Therefore, we created Books with Voices: barcode-augmented paper transcripts enabling fast, random access to digital video interviews on a PDA. Our evaluation found this lightweight, structured access to original recordings to offer substantial benefits with minimal overhead. Both The Designers' Outpost and Books with Voices could have been built in a fraction of the time if the Papier-Mâche toolkit had been available.
Knowledge transfer within and across organizational boundaries: A case study in the construction industry

Knowledge transfer is essential for an organization to be competitive and successful. However, as projects are temporary, knowledge is often bound to the individuals in projects rather than to the core organizations. The main research question for this article is: How can collaboration be used in order to transfer knowledge from one project to another within an organization or with other organizations within a project? To do this, a theoretical framework of recent literature concerning knowledge management and transfer is used, as well as a case study about an urban development organization working with a rather unique collaboration structure in order to maximize the knowledge transfer from and between different actors. Our method of research has been interviews with a divisional manager and two project managers at an urban development organization. Results from our case study indicate that in the planning phase, knowledge transfer includes collecting feedback and information as well as using a central knowledge platform. During the production phase, face-to-face communication is the most important form of knowledge transfer. After each project, evaluation is essential to collect the experience of collaboration and identify planning errors. Our findings also show that most knowledge transfer occurs at an informal level. The study concludes that several factors affect knowledge transfer in a construction organization. The most essential are the media in which knowledge is transferred and the way information is stored. Taking all factors into consideration, an organization with a decentralized structure and an open and broad-minded culture enables successful knowledge transfer.
Option valuation under the VG process by a DG method

The paper presents a discontinuous Galerkin method for solving partial integrodifferential equations arising from the European as well as American option pricing when the underlying asset follows an exponential variance gamma process. For practical purposes of numerical solving we introduce the modified option pricing problem resulting from a localization to a bounded domain and an approximation of small jumps, and we discuss the related error estimates. Then we employ a robust numerical procedure based on piecewise polynomial generally discontinuous approximations in the spatial domain. This technique enables a simple treatment of the American early exercise constraint by a direct encompassing it as an additional nonlinear source term to the governing equation. Special attention is paid to the proper discretization of non-local jump integral components, which is based on splitting integrals with respect to the domain according to the size of the jumps. Moreover, to preserve sparsity of resulting linear algebraic systems the pricing equation is integrated in the temporal variable by a semi-implicit Euler scheme. Finally, the numerical results demonstrate the capability of the numerical scheme presented within the reference benchmarks.
A smart GUI based air-conditioning and lighting controller for energy saving in building

This paper will concentrate on the algorithm and control strategies where the air-conditioners and lighting system can be controlled using microcontroller; a microcontroller is chosen due to its low cost and high flexibility. Conceptually, the controller is programmed with i9nternal timer and sensors to automatically switch off the power supply to the air-conditioning and lighting units at pre-defined times, or when no user is detected in a room. The working prototype of energy saving control system is developed with graphical user interface (GUI) embedded in Graphic LCD in order to avoid the dependency of personal computer which consume a lot of energy. The system has been built and tested in UMP lecture room. Based on our case study and energy audit, the prototype can achieve 35% reduction in the energy consumption of the air-conditioning and lighting system in UMP lecture room. For market potential, the control system can also be used in other places such as domestics, industrial and office building. Key-Words: graphical user interface (GUI), graphic LCD, energy saving control system, microcontroller
Towards planning: incremental investigations into adaptive robot control

Traditional models of planning have adopted a top-down perspective by focusing on the deliberative, conscious qualities of planning at the expense of having a system that is connected to the world through its perceptions. My thesis takes the opposing, bottom-up perspective that being firmly situated in the world is the crucial starting point to understanding planning. The central hypothesis of this thesis is that the ability to plan developed from the more primitive capacity of reactive control. Neural networks offer the most promising mechanism for investigating robot control and planning because connectionist methodology allows the task demands rather than the designer's biases to be the primary force in shaping a system's development. Input can come directly from the sensors and output can feed directly into the actuators creating a close coupling of perception and action. This interplay between sensing and acting fosters a dynamic interaction between the controller and its environment that is crucial to producing reactive behavior. Because adaptation is fundamental to the connectionist paradigm, the designer need not posit what form the internal knowledge will take or what specific function it will serve. Instead, based on the training task, the system will construct its own internal representations built directly from the sensor readings to achieve the desired control behavior. Once the system has reached an adequate level of performance at the task, its method can be dissected and a high-level understanding of its control principles can be determined. This thesis takes an incremental approach towards understanding planning. In the initial phase, several ways of representing goals are explored using a simulated robot in a one-dimensional environment. Next the model is extended to accommodate an actual physical robot and two reinforcement learning methods for adapting the network controllers are compared: a gradient descent algorithm and a genetic algorithm. Finally, the model's behavior and representations are analyzed to reveal that it contains the potential building blocks necessary for planning. By actively restricting the extent of our presuppositions about planning, we may be able to develop truly autonomous robots with radically different forms of control and planning.
Evaluation of the Parameters Affecting the Success Rate of the Microfluidics-Based Sperm Selection for In Vitro Fertilization

The developed technologies for the treatment of infertility have frequently been shown to be affected by several factors including woman age, cause of infertility, levels of follicle stimulating hormone, adequate ovarian responses and number of collected eggs [3]. Moreover, sperm quality has also been underlined to be responsible for the failure of the IVF successes [4], and male factor was clarified to contribute IVF failure in a rate of 3050% [5]. Sperm morphology, motility, count and genomic integrity have been figured out to be criteria affecting sperm quality and some methods to test and choose the sperm with high quality have been developed [6]. Among these methods, density gradient and swim-up techniques by which high quality sperms are obtained by centrifugation and via endogenous sperm motility property, respectively have widely been used in the clinics. However, these methods could be disadvantageous, as they would result in low sperm number and/or loss in sperm quality [7].
What are the Effects of Computerized Decision Support Systems on Practitioner Performance and Patient Outcomes

Background Computerized decision support systems (CDSS) are software programs that support the decision making of practitioners and other staff. Other reviews have analyzed the relationship between CDSS, practitioner performance, and patient outcomes. These reviews reported positive practitioner performance in over half the articles analyzed, but very little information was found for patient outcomes. The purpose of this review was to analyze the relationship between CDSS, practitioner performance, and patient medical outcomes. PubMed, CINAHL, and Cochrane databases were queried.Methods 27 articles were chosen based on year published (last ten years), high quality source, and discussion of the relationship between the use of CDSS as an intervention and links to practitioner performance or patient outcomes. Reviewers used an Excel spreadsheet to collect information on the relationship between CDSS and practitioner performance or patient outcomes. Reviewers also collected observations of participants, intervention, comparison with control group, and outcomes (PICO) along with those showing implicit bias. Articles were analyzed by multiple reviewers following the Kruse Protocol for systematic reviews. Data were organized into multiple tables for analysis and reporting.Results Fourteen articles (52%) discussed positive practitioner performance, three articles (11%) found no difference in practitioner performance, ten articles (37%) did not discuss practitioner performance. Zero articles reported negative practitioner performance. Fifteen articles (56%) discussed positive patient medical outcomes, two articles (7%) found no statistically significant difference in medical outcomes between intervention and control groups, and ten articles (37%) did not discuss medical outcomes. Zero articles found negative patient medical outcomes.Conclusions Results of this review are commensurate with previous reviews with similar objectives, but unlike these reviews we found significant positive reporting of a positive effect on patient medical outcomes. Our findings support adoption of decision support systems.
Partial replacement of Chemical Fertilizers with Organic and Biofertilizers of Anabaena circcinalis and Oscillatoria lymentica in rice Fields.

A field experiment was carried out in the province of Najaf - al ashraf using two types of blue-green algae( Anabaena circinalis and Oscillaoria lymentica ) which have been isolated and diagnosed in the laboratories of the department of plant protection / ministry of agriculture in Iraq with the compost( palm fronds ) manufacturer locally and by 1 ml : 10 g of organic matter within one month of cuddling and using a single level of humidity is 1 : 2 (water : organic matter). Randomized complete block design RCBD to see the effect of use it as a single or mix in the productivity of rice crop Yasamin cultivar where it was noted that it is equipped with a dynamic composting of organic matter leads to the analysis of organic material and increasing the nitrogen content to moss 32.76 % with Anabaena and 19.72 % with mixture of algae. It was also observed superiority of the treatment (5) Anabaena with 25% of the chemical fertilizer, treatment (4) Anabaena with 50% of the chemical fertilizer which is not differ with the treatment (2) full recommending fertilizer and treatment (9) compost with 50% of the recommendation fertilizer, which gave seed weight 695 g / m 2 and 694 g / m 2 , respectively, compared with 754.7 g/m 2 and 730 g/m 2 respectively, Weight of 1000 also gave the seed of 27.64 g and 27.58 g, respectively, compared with 754.7 g and 730 g, respectively the length of the deltoid was 25.23 cm and 24.70 cm, respectively, compared with 25.37 cm and 25.30 cm respectively and it was noted an increase in the biological yield gave 15.88 tons / h and 15.84 tons /h, respectively, compared to 16.50 tons/h and 16.13 tons /h. Also it was noted an increase in the length of plant in treatment (4) Anabaena with 50% of the fertilizer recommendation which is not differ with the full treatment of recommendation fertilizer and the treatment 9 of compost with 50% of the recommendation as fertilizer gave 110.6 cm compared to 110.9 cm and 110.1cmrespectively, as for the dry weight observed increasing of algae treatments (4) treatment Anabaena with 50% of the recommendation fertilizer ,(5) treatment Anabaena with 25% of the recommendation fertilizer and (7) treatments (algae mixture with 50% of the fertilizer recommendation) which is not differ from full recommending fertilizer (2) treatment and (9) treatment compost with 50% of the recommendation fertilizer, was given 890 g 893 g, 890 g, respectively, compared to 896 g and 883 g, respectively. We conclude that the use of the way with bio- organic and algal fertilizer in alone or mixture increase in productivity of growth ,biological yield and reduces the use of chemical fertilizer for a healthy quotient of consumers in food consumption.
Haptic interface for virtual reality based laparoscopic surgery training environment

These Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 1734 (1997)Laboratoire de systemes robotiques 2 Reference doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-1734Print copy in library catalog Record created on 2005-03-16, modified on 2017-05-10
Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Service-Learning in Higher Education

The rubric is structured by five dimensions, which are considered by most service-learning experts to be key factors for higher education service-learning institutionalization. Each dimension is comprised of several components that characterize the dimension. For each component, a three-stage continuum of development has been established. Progression from Stage One: Critical Mass Building to Stage Three: Sustained Institutionalization suggests that a campus is moving closer to the full institutionalization of service-learning.
Ding Dong! Avon Calling!

The Avon Lady was a woman who sold cosmetics door-to-door and earned commissions on her sales. In the 1950s, she became famous in a long-running advertising campaign that featured a two-chime doorbell, “Ding Dong! ,” followed by the greeting “Avon Calling! ” At that time, more than 250,000 women worked as Avon Ladies, and together they represented the largest female direct sales force in the world. Avon began as the California Perfume Company in 1886. Its founder, David McConnell, had sought to provide women with an independent business opportunity largely hoping to soften the seedy reputation of itinerant peddlers. When the company created the Avon brand of cosmetics in the 1930s, changing its name to Avon Products in 1939, it stood as a leader in the direct selling industry and the only company to hire women exclusively as its representatives. This history explores the business of those representatives and the way they were managed. In the second half of the twentieth century, Avon became the largest direct sales company in the United States, spurred by a growing white suburban market. Avon hesitated until the late 1960s to develop recruiting and sales in the African American market, but by the 1970s it was regarded as a leader in affirmative action programs to diversify its workplace and promote women in management. Still, Avon’s executive suite remained a male preserve until Andrea Jung became its first female CEO in 1999. Although Avon closed its doors in 2016, it had earned a solid reputation as a company by women, and for women.
Dosimetric comparison between using daily cone beam CT and planning CT in Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy technique for prostate cancer therapy

This research aimed to investigate the dosimetric change in target and organs at risk during prostate cancer treatment. Target and critical organs positions in prostate cancer were based on daily CBCT. A total of 220 daily CBCT form five patients who were treated with VMAT technique for 79.2 Gy prescribed dose in 44 fractions were selected. The CTV, PTV, bladder and rectum volumes were manually contoured on daily CBCT images after registered with planning CT. The original plan was transferred and recalculated on daily CBCT images. The DVHs were selected to analyze the dosimetric results. In the result, the percent volume difference at V95% of CTV and PTV were 1.5% ± 3.7% and -6.5% ± 5.0%, respectively. The average volume difference of all V70Gy, V65Gy and V60Gy of daily CBCT and planning CT images showed -21.9% ± 22.6 % and 2.1% ± 51.0% for bladder and rectum, respectively. In conclusion, the dosimetric comparison between using daily cone beam CT and planning CT in VMAT technique for prostate cancer therapy is not significantly different for CTV, in contrast dosimetric difference of the PTV, bladder and rectum are significantly changed.