Survey of Aviation Technical Manuals, Phase 2 Report: User Evaluation of Maintenance Documents

This report contains the results from Phase 2 of a 3-phase research effort. Phase 1 (Human Factors Survey of Aviation Technical Manuals Phase 1 Report: Manual Development Procedures) of this research effort surveyed the procedures used by five manufacturers to develop maintenance documentation. Several potential human factors issues were identified in the development processes employed by these manufacturers. They included the reactive rather than proactive use of user evaluations, the limited use of user input and procedure validation, no systematic attempts to track error, and the lack of standards for measuring document quality. In Phase 2, a written survey was used to solicit information about user perception of errors in current manuals, manual usage rates, and general manual quality. On-site interviews of technicians were also conducted to gather feedback about the types of problems encountered with manuals, the associated impact, and suggestions for improving manuals. Feedback was obtained from technicians responsible for maintenance on a wide variety of Federal Aviation Regulations, Part 25 aircraft. Survey results revealed that, although user evaluations of the accuracy and quality of technical manuals are generally good, they rate manuals as having poor usability. Comparing the results of Phase 1 to the Phase 2 results supports the need for a higher level of user involvement during the document development process

Confronting the Unconventional: Innovation and Transformation in Military Affairs

Are there limits to military transformation? Or, if it seems obvious that there must be limits to transformation, what are they exactly, why do they arise, and how can we identify them so that we may better accomplish the transformation that the U.S. military is capable of? If limits to military change and transformation exist, what are the broader implications for national policy and strategy? The author offers some answers to these questions by analyzing the efforts of the French, British, and Americans to deal with irregular threats after World War II.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1365/thumbnail.jp

The Gamut: A Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 27, Summer 1989

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 27, SUMMER, 1989 Louis T. Milic: Editorial, 2 The New Library of the Past Diana Orendi Hinze: Expiation and Repression, 4 German literature and the Nazi past J. Heywood Alexander: Our Redeemed, Beloved Land , 16 Bands, songs, Lincoln! and the Civil War. Sylvia Whitman: Mountain Nurses, 25 Kentucky\u27s Frontier Nursing Service for mother and child. Ron Haybron: Fraud in Science, 33 Can we place our trust in the heirs of Galileo and Pasteur? Pat Martaus: Feminist Literary Criticism, 45 Social reform or academic language game? J. E. Vacha: Constance and the Con, 51 The unlikely friendship between a Cleveland career girl and Sing Sing\u27s celebrated editor inmate. Poetry Ken Waldman: Three Lessons in Taking Off Clothes, 62 The Non Sequitur at the Intersection of Market and Vine, 63 William Virgil Davis: Still Life, 64 Stratagem, 64 Carolyn Reams Smith: Know Old Caleb, 65 Killing Old Caleb For Grandma Mary, 66 B. A. St. Andrews: The Alchemists, 68 Victoria Neufeldt: Catching Up With the Language, 69 Revising Webster\u27s New World Dictionary Hannah Gilberg and the editors: A Good Bowl-and a Work of Art, 80 A Portfolio of Ceramics by Theresa Yondo Review P K. Saha: The Verbal Workshop, 87 A review of The Wordtree , a thesaurus of ideas Back Matter Ken Roby: Rescuing Bentley, 95https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gamut_archives/1024/thumbnail.jp

The Gamut: A Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 27, Summer 1989

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 27, SUMMER, 1989 Louis T. Milic: Editorial, 2 The New Library of the Past Diana Orendi Hinze: Expiation and Repression, 4 German literature and the Nazi past J. Heywood Alexander: Our Redeemed, Beloved Land , 16 Bands, songs, Lincoln! and the Civil War. Sylvia Whitman: Mountain Nurses, 25 Kentucky\u27s Frontier Nursing Service for mother and child. Ron Haybron: Fraud in Science, 33 Can we place our trust in the heirs of Galileo and Pasteur? Pat Martaus: Feminist Literary Criticism, 45 Social reform or academic language game? J. E. Vacha: Constance and the Con, 51 The unlikely friendship between a Cleveland career girl and Sing Sing\u27s celebrated editor inmate. Poetry Ken Waldman: Three Lessons in Taking Off Clothes, 62 The Non Sequitur at the Intersection of Market and Vine, 63 William Virgil Davis: Still Life, 64 Stratagem, 64 Carolyn Reams Smith: Know Old Caleb, 65 Killing Old Caleb For Grandma Mary, 66 B. A. St. Andrews: The Alchemists, 68 Victoria Neufeldt: Catching Up With the Language, 69 Revising Webster\u27s New World Dictionary Hannah Gilberg and the editors: A Good Bowl-and a Work of Art, 80 A Portfolio of Ceramics by Theresa Yondo Review P K. Saha: The Verbal Workshop, 87 A review of The Wordtree , a thesaurus of ideas Back Matter Ken Roby: Rescuing Bentley, 95https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gamut_archives/1024/thumbnail.jp

Some contribution in operations research

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They watch and wonder. Public attitudes toward advanced technology

The relationship of technological development to individual and community response was investigated to provide a general conceptual, as well as empirical basis, for an understanding of the impact of advanced technologies on social life. Results of the surveys are presented in tables and graphs

Data bases and data base systems related to NASA's aerospace program. A bibliography with indexes

This bibliography lists 1778 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system, 1975 through 1980

Use of Models for Water Resources Management, Planning, and Policy

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of "the Nation's ability to use models more efficiently and effectively analyze and solve our water resource problems" (p. iii)

Tolkien and the Fellowship of all Living Things: The Politics of Proximity, Person and Place

Tolkien’s words on ‘fighting the long defeat’ are wonderful and endlessly inspiring – he gives us a ‘hope without guarantees.’ And a long defeat that, in acts of love and kindness and solidarity, gives ‘glimpses of final victory.’ There’s a lot of discussion on what it takes to motivate people to act at the moment. Tolkien’s environmental concern came years before environmentalism as a movement, and is really a Christian stewardship. Many would consider him nostalgic, reactionary even, anti-technological – but he saw the impacts of industrialisation and urbanisation and didn’t like them, thought that they drew us away from the right way of relating to each other and to the world. Tolkien teaches that large scale ambitious projects need to be grounded in small-scale reasoning, communities of practice and love of place – a Hobbit like existence in which the ordinary actions of the little people knit communities together and create the warm and affective bonds between us, making us prepared to act to defend the places and persons we love and value. I develop these themes at length in this Tolkien piece. We need an environmentalism that gives the ‘little folk’ a material and moral stake. If we are Hobbits at heart, and if we create the Hobbit habits of the heart, then we will have the motivation to act and don’t need to be persuaded. And here I show how the protagonists in the Lord of the Rings put everything on the line and throw their whole heart and soul into the struggle. Everything they hold dear is at stake, the people and places they love, everything they hold true and know to be right. They long to preserve these things and are prepared to sacrifice themselves for their protection. I develop Tolkien's natural anarchy and pacifism