Injury surveillance training manual: instructor guide

The Injury Surveillance Training Manual is designed primarily for professionals who develop or operate surveillance systems and conduct prevention activities in less-resourced countries. It describes the steps needed to establish and maintain an injury surveillance system; provides information on designing and monitoring prevention activities; and offers guidance for making informed decisions about injury prevention. The curriculum emphasizes basic epidemiological skills needed to conduct surveillance and prevention activities; participation by different sectors and institutions in injury prevention efforts; and injury surveillance and prevention activities at the local level.Introduction -- Overview -- Workshop Guide -- Course Outline -- -- Sessions -- I. Understand the Conceptual Framework of Injury Prevention -- II. Assess Injury Data Sources and Describe the Injury Problem -- III. Build a Coalition to Support the Injury Surveillance System and Prevention Activities -- IV. Determine the Appropriate Methodology for the Surveillance System -- V. Define and Develop an Analysis Plan for the Surveillance Data -- VI. Use Injury Surveillance Data to Inform Injury Prevention -- VII. Define an Evaluation Plan for the Surveillance System and Monitor Prevention Activities -- -- Appendixes -- 1. Pre- and Post-Course Test -- 2. Session Evaluation -- 3. Workshop Evaluation -- 4. Sample Workshop ScheduleBy Victoria Espitia-Hardeman and Leonard Paulozzi.Also available on CD-ROM in English and Spanish. The CD-ROM includes Instructor and Participant Guides, PowerPoint presentations for each session, and data for session exercises.Also available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (12.1 MB, 176 p.).Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-116)

Injury surveillance training manual: participant guide

The Injury Surveillance Training Manual is designed primarily for professionals who develop or operate surveillance systems and conduct prevention activities in less-resourced countries. It describes the steps needed to establish and maintain an injury surveillance system; provides information on designing and monitoring prevention activities; and offers guidance for making informed decisions about injury prevention. The curriculum emphasizes basic epidemiological skills needed to conduct surveillance and prevention activities; participation by different sectors and institutions in injury prevention efforts; and injury surveillance and prevention activities at the local level.Introduction -- Overview -- Workshop Guide -- Course Outline -- -- Sessions -- Pretest -- I. Understand the Conceptual Framework of Injury Prevention -- II. Assess Injury Data Sources and Describe the Injury Problem -- III. Build a Coalition to Support the Injury Surveillance System and Prevention Activities -- IV. Determine the Appropriate Methodology for the Surveillance System -- V. Define and Develop an Analysis Plan for the Surveillance Data -- VI. Use Injury Surveillance Data to Inform Injury Prevention -- VII. Define an Evaluation Plan for the Surveillance System and Monitor Prevention Activities -- -- Posttest -- Session evaluation -- Workshop evaluationBy Victoria Espitia-Hardeman and Leonard Paulozzi.Also available on CD-ROM in English and Spanish. The CD-ROM includes Instructor and Participant Guides, PowerPoint presentations for each session, and data for session exercises.Also available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (9.51 MB, 156 p.).Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-116)

Standard For Distributed Interactive Simulation, Exercise Management And Feedback: Draft

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The Clarens Web Service Framework for Distributed Scientific Analysis in Grid Projects

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There is an increasing use of distributed computer systems to provide services in both traditional telephony as well as in the Internet. Two main technologies are Distributed Object Computing (DOC) and Web based services. One common DOC architecture investigated in this thesis is the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), specified by the Object Management Group. CORBA applications consist of interacting software components called objects. Two other DOC architectures investigated are the Telecommunications Information Net- working Architecture (TINA) and a CORBA based Intelligent Network (IN/CORBA) system. In a DOC environment, the objects of an application are distributed on mul- tiple nodes. A middleware layer makes the distribution transparent to the application. However, the distributed nature creates a number of potential performance problems. Three problems in DOC systems are examined in this thesis: object distribution, load balancing and overload protection. An object distribution describes how objects are distributed in the network. The objective is to distribute the objects on the physical nodes in such a way that intern-node communication overhead is as small as possible. One way to solve the object distribution problem is to use linear programming. The constraints for the problem are then given by both ease of management of the system and performance concerns. Load balancing is used when there are multiple objects that can be used at a particular time. The objective of load balancing is to distribute the load e±ciently on the available nodes. This thesis investigates a number of de- centralized load balancing mechanisms, including one based on the use of intelligent agents. Finally, overload protection mechanisms for DOC systems are investigated. While overload protection is well-researched for telecom networks, only little work has been performed previously concerning DOC and overload protection. Also, this thesis examines the use of overload protection in e-commerce web servers. Two schemes are compared, one which handles admission to the e-commerce site on request basis, and another which handles admission on session basis. The session based mechanism is shown to be better in terms of user-experienced performance