International print and digital repositories initiatives in the United States: CRL, Portico, LOCKSS, Internet Archive : print archives in the United States

A number of pressures on academic libraries imperil the long-term survivability of printed knowledge and heritage materials. Ever-growing volumes of materials, costs of preserving and delivering paper-based research resources, and researchers’ growing demand for source materials in electronic formats all produce strain on our institutions. ..

Reports from the different Clean Clothes Campaigns and projects: November 2006 – February 2007

A compilation of country reports on the activities of the various European Clean Clothes Campaigns from November 2006 to February 2007

Community Reference Laboratory for Feed Additives Authorisation: Annual Report 2006

The objective of this report is to present the activities of the Community Reference Laboratory for Feed Additives Authorisation in 2006 (CRL-FAA). The report shows that besides the evaluation of dossiers, the CRL-FAA carried out many other tasks. Important additional matters were the successful accreditation of the laboratory according to ISO 17025, the support of the European Commission regarding the drafting of the new guidelines for the applicants, further improvement of informatics tools and the organisation of two workshops to discuss these topics with the National Reference Laboratory.JRC.D.8-Food safety and qualit

Evaluating Membership in a Resource-Sharing Program: The Center for Research Libraries

A partir de l'expérience de l'Université de la Caroline du Nord sont passés en revue les arguments en faveur de la participation au programme de partage des ressources offert par le Centre des bibliothèques de recherche: obligation de coopérer, rôle de bibliothèque des bibliothèques, services et collections uniques, assurance, économies, échange entre dépôts et documents donnés. Sont présentées aussi quatre méthodes d'évaluation de ce centre: analyse de valeur relative, analyse de valeur absolue, analyse de bénéfice de coût, analyse d'efficacité de coût

A comparison of airborne and ground-based radar observations with rain gages during the CaPE experiment

The vicinity of KSC, where the primary ground truth site of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) program is located, was the focal point of the Convection and Precipitation/Electrification (CaPE) experiment in Jul. and Aug. 1991. In addition to several specialized radars, local coverage was provided by the C-band (5 cm) radar at Patrick AFB. Point measurements of rain rate were provided by tipping bucket rain gage networks. Besides these ground-based activities, airborne radar measurements with X- and Ka-band nadir-looking radars on board an aircraft were also recorded. A unique combination data set of airborne radar observations with ground-based observations was obtained in the summer convective rain regime of central Florida. We present a comparison of these data intending a preliminary validation. A convective rain event was observed simultaneously by all three instrument types on the evening of 27 Jul. 1991. The high resolution aircraft radar was flown over convective cells with tops exceeding 10 km and observed reflectivities of 40 to 50 dBZ at 4 to 5 km altitude, while the low resolution surface radar observed 35 to 55 dBZ echoes and a rain gage indicated maximum surface rain rates exceeding 100 mm/hr. The height profile of reflectivity measured with the airborne radar show an attenuation of 6.5 dB/km (two way) for X-band, corresponding to a rainfall rate of 95 mm/hr

The multilingual entity task (MET) overview

Conference-6 (MUC-6) evaluation of named entity identification demonstrated that systems are approach-ing human performance onEnglish language t xts [10]. Informal and anonymous, the MET provided a new opportunity to assess progress on the same task in Span-ish, Japanese, and Chinese. Preliminary results indicate that MET systems in all three languages performed comparably to those of the MUC-6 evaluatien in English. Based upon the Named Entity Task Guidelines [ 11], the task was to locate and tag with SGML named entity expressions (people, organizations, and locations), time expressions (time and date), and numeric expressions (percentage and money) in Spanish texts from Agence France Presse, in Japanese texts from Kyodo newswire, or in Chinese texts from Xinhua newswkel. Across lan-guages the keywords "press conference " retrieved a rich subcorpus of texts, covering awide spectrum of topics. Frequency and types of expressions vary in the three language sets [2] [8] [9]. The original task guidelines were modified so that he core guidelines were language independent with language specific rules appended. The schedule was quite abbreviated. In the fall, Government language teams retrieved training and test texts with multilingual software for the Fast Data Finder (FDF), refined the MUC-6 guidelines, and manually tagged 100 training texts using the SRA Named Entity Tool. In January, the training texts were released along with 200 sample unannotated training texts to the partic-ipating sites. A dry run was held in late March and early April and in late April the official test on 100 texts was. The language t xts were supplied by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) at the University of Pennsylvania. performed anonymously. SAIC created language ver-sions of the scoring program and provided technical support throughout. Both commercial and academic groups partici-pated. Two groups, New Mexico State University/Com

Lean effectiveness model for products and services : servicing existing systems in aerospace and technology

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61).Enterprises undergo transformation for more efficient and effective performance and growth. The Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool (LESAT) is a product of the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This tool is used by many enterprises to assess strengths, areas of improvement, and the enterprise's readiness to change. LESAT has been designed for enterprises that offer products only, not services. However, many of the principles and methodologies apply to servicing existing systems, which is a growing industry trend both in the private and public sector. Servicing existing systems accounts for 70% of the United States Department of Defense weapon system's total life-cycle cost. Many enterprises offer services to support, maintain, and upgrade their products. Many enterprises also rely on core internal systems that must be maintained and upgraded such as airline reservation systems or supply chain logistics tools. An extension of LESAT for Servicing Existing Systems is proposed as an assessment tool toward lean effectiveness for products and services. Collaborations with the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) In- Service Systems Working Group; three aerospace and technology enterprises Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon; as well as review of the literature are used in capturing best practices for success in servicing existing systems.by Tina Prabha Srivastava.S.M

Volume 40, Number 3, September 2020 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized September 2020 issue of the OLAC Newsletter

Advancing automation and robotics technology for the space station and for the US economy: Submitted to the United States Congress October 1, 1987

In April 1985, as required by Public Law 98-371, the NASA Advanced Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC) reported to Congress the results of its studies on advanced automation and robotics technology for use on the space station. This material was documented in the initial report (NASA Technical Memorandum 87566). A further requirement of the Law was that ATAC follow NASA's progress in this area and report to Congress semiannually. This report is the fifth in a series of progress updates and covers the period between 16 May 1987 and 30 September 1987. NASA has accepted the basic recommendations of ATAC for its space station efforts. ATAC and NASA agree that the mandate of Congress is that an advanced automation and robotics technology be built to support an evolutionary space station program and serve as a highly visible stimulator affecting the long-term U.S. economy

Report of the President, Bowdoin College 1997-1998

https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/presidents-reports/1107/thumbnail.jp