Catalysts for regional development: putting territorial coordination in practice

Lack of coordination among agencies at project level and scarce promotion of contracts at micro-scale are critical gaps widely spread in many Latin American regions. We discuss some specific and feasible mechanisms, namely: (i) alliances for rural development and (ii) contract promoters; that may play a catalytic role to deal with the mentioned problems. Based on a continuous improving integral strategy and an effective operative framework, these alliances would be prone to unveil areas for interventions and to channel them into the pipelines of the ministries, financing agencies or private investor initiatives. These alliances can assist in solving tradeoffs between enough economies of scale for enhancing capabilities and sufficient local knowledge. Also, they might reduce capture problems. Contract promoters on the other hand, can be viewed as facilitators for startup businesses. They evolve as enterprise incubators, with expertise for rural areas, projects and marketing; combined with a vision for development. Both catalysts have a synergetic effect for coordinating regional development and should be prominent in rural modernization agendas.Rural development, Catalyst, Experimental, Promoter, Local Governance, Applied Political Economy

Feature interaction in composed systems. Proceedings. ECOOP 2001 Workshop #08 in association with the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Budapest, Hungary, June 18-22, 2001

Feature interaction is nothing new and not limited to computer science. The problem of undesirable feature interaction (feature interaction problem) has already been investigated in the telecommunication domain. Our goal is the investigation of feature interaction in componet-based systems beyond telecommunication. This Technical Report embraces all position papers accepted at the ECOOP 2001 workshop no. 08 on "Feature Interaction in Composed Systems". The workshop was held on June 18, 2001 at Budapest, Hungary

Implementation of the Digital Communication System in the F/A-18 Aircraft

The F/A-18 Hornet is a Navy/Marine Corps carrier-based strike/fighter built by the Boeing Company. The Hornet is a dual role aircraft designed to have all weather intercept and ground attack capabilities. The purpose of this study was to examine the Variable Message Format (VMF) communications capability, integration compatibility and technical suitability of the RT-1824(C) ARC-210 radio as integrated into the F/A-18 aircraft. Normally, this aircraft would utilize two ARC-210 voice capable only RT-1556 radio sets designated Comm 1 and Comm 2. Comm 1 is switchable between an upper AS-4129/ARC antenna and lower AS-3557/A antenna. Comm 2 utilizes a separate lower AS-4129/ARC antenna. The RT-1824(C) provides baseline ARC-210 RT-1556 capabilities as well as embedded COMSEC capability, and digital messaging for use during the Close Air Support (CAS) mission. Tests included range performance, aircraft software integration, E3, ECS, Carrier Suitability, TEMPEST, Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability. Range performance and software integration testing included Air-to-Air testing using an airborne F/A-18 as a Forward Air Controller Airborne (FAC(A)) and Air to Ground testing using a ground FAC with a Target Location Designation Hand-off System (TLDHS). The study revealed a significant reduction in aircrew workload and a tremendous improvement in aircrew and FAC situational awareness after incorporating the new VMF technology. However, the original specification requirements for this program excluded the FAC(A) mission. The author felt that the inclusion of this mission was very important and included it during the research of this thesis. This study will look into the CAS and FAC(A) roles and provide design changes to enhance this system and make it more useful to the fleet user. The author’s analysis was done on information attained during a Navy developmental test program, however all conclusions and recommendations are independent of the test program. The author’s role in this test program was as lead test pilot and project officer. The identified problems are: 1. The need to redesign the touch-sensitive data entry keyboard of the Up Front Control Display to provide an alphanumeric entry capability in addition to providing secondary tactile interface with the weapons system, specifically for the FAC(A) mission. 2. Modify the aircraft software and TLDHS software to display the following commands: “Continue”, “Cleared Hot” and “Abort”. These messages should appear in the Pilot’s HUD, FLIR display, Radar display and Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Sight display to provide the needed situational awareness (SA) in a highly dynamic mission environment, such as CAS. 3. Design a modified CAS page to appear after the aircrew selects “USE” to facilitate gaining pertinent information faster when conducting CAS missions. 4. Redesign the NETS page to allow more than one “SEND TO” list to appear when the aircraft is serving in the FAC(A) role. 5. Modify the software to allow the “Friendly Arc” to appear on the SA display in addition to the HSI display. 6. Redesign the CAS status line function to account for total number of aircraft received versus the total number of aircraft on the “Send To” list by modifying the NETS page to incorporate color to allow quick interpretation of which aircraft received the sent messages vice which did not. 7. Relay a repeater image of the close air support aircraft’s heads up display, to allow the FAC or FAC(A) to confirm the correct target is being attacked

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 192

This bibliography lists 247 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in March 1979

Strategic directions in constraint programming

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Institutional issues and perspectives in the management of fisheries and coastal resources in southeast Asia

In developing countries, institutional weaknesses and constraints are pervasive in the fisheries and coastal resources management sector. Legal, policy and institutional frameworks are not crafted to suit the unique features of fisheries and other coastal resources and this has resulted in mismatches and overlaps. This volume highlights the important institutional demands and challenges in fisheries and coastal resources management through case studies in four countries in Southeast Asia û Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand. The main focus is on the fisheries sector, a major resource in the coastal zone. Since issues in this sector cannot be divorced from issues affecting the integrated management of coastal resources, both are addressed in the discussion. This volume provides an introduction to the institutional milieu of coastal and fishery resources management in Southeast Asia.Fishery management, Marine resources, Institutional resources, Legal aspects, Governments, Southeast Asia,

Dagstuhl News January - December 2000

"Dagstuhl News" is a publication edited especially for the members of the Foundation "Informatikzentrum Schloss Dagstuhl" to thank them for their support. The News give a summary of the scientific work being done in Dagstuhl. Each Dagstuhl Seminar is presented by a small abstract describing the contents and scientific highlights of the seminar as well as the perspectives or challenges of the research topic

Modelling and analyzing adaptive self-assembling strategies with Maude

Building adaptive systems with predictable emergent behavior is a challenging task and it is becoming a critical need. The research community has accepted the challenge by introducing approaches of various nature: from software architectures, to programming paradigms, to analysis techniques. We recently proposed a conceptual framework for adaptation centered around the role of control data. In this paper we show that it can be naturally realized in a reflective logical language like Maude by using the Reflective Russian Dolls model. Moreover, we exploit this model to specify, validate and analyse a prominent example of adaptive system: robot swarms equipped with self-assembly strategies. The analysis exploits the statistical model checker PVeStA

Tracking and data system support for the Mariner Mars 1969 mission. Volume 2: Midcourse maneuver through end of nominal mission

Tracking and data system support for Mariner Mars 1969 mission from midcourse maneuver through end of nominal missio