The World According To GARP

This technical report consists of two papers describing the GARP concurrent programming system. Garp: Graph Abstractions for Concurrent Programming investigates construction of dynamic process topologies in parallel processing languages. It proposes the use of a graph-grammar based formalism to control the complexities arising from trying to program such dynamic networks. Garp: A Graphical Language for Concurrent Programming describes the GARP system, a programming environment that implements this graph-grammar approach, and gives solutions to example problems in which the topologies of concurrent systems dynamically change

Knowledge enhancement in the change process : social marketing and attitude change leading to improved environmental behaviour

The complexity of relationships between social change and natural resource management has generated interest in the identification of indicators that might provide more streamlined means of monitoring and planning control programmes. This case study highlights the marketing paradigms of benchmarking and social marketing in a not-for-profit governmental environment. Publicly funded programs that require individual and community participation need to be marketed with a view to optimising involvement and commitment of the various stakeholders. A mail survey with a representative sample of 608 respondents was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a social marketing program. This study highlights the use of social marketing in a program to overcome an environmental issue by a governmental agency. Changing attitudes and beliefs takes time and often the target audience may not even know they have a problem that needs fixing. This process influences the focus of the social marketing effort which might be organised into three phases: &bull; Raise awareness and knowledge.&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;Change attitudes.&nbsp; &bull; Encourage action. The research conducted in this study illustrates how the various stages in the social marketing process were achieved through knowledge enhancement in an environmental management case study.<br /

Design and development of fuzzy expert system for Handy Board

The recent trend in global manufacturing scenario has resulted in the emergence of many innovative techniques that have revolutionized the manufacturing industry as a whole. A lot of states of art advances have been associated with the increasing use of microprocessors in advance manufacturing systems. Out of many the one, which has predominantly captured the real time, behavioral use is the Fuzzy Logic.;Fuzzy logic implementation in real time environment involves the integration of multi-disciplinary area like computer engineering, mechanical and electronic systems tailored towards smart systems that enable a very precise control on the process. The fuzzy logic based project involves the programming of microprocessor for the control of sequence of operation depending upon the change in the values of environment variables.;In this research, a computer based system for operating a Motorola Handyboard was designed and developed. A user friendly system in a Visual Basic environment is developed which generates a C++ code to be compiled by the microprocessor using the IC compiler of the Handyboard. The program is then downloaded and with the change in the environment variables the change in output can be observed. Visual Basic is used to develop the front end and integrate the C++ code for performing various functionalities. The system has features to compile and download the code to the Handyboard. The system also helps the user to navigate through the software

Development of a Production Planning and Control Software in Total Productivity Maintenance Environment

Successful modern manufacturing organizations require support from both effective and efficient maintenance works. One of the approaches for improving the performance of both production and maintenance is by developing and implementing a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) strategy. The main objectives for this study is to develop a production planning and control (PPC) software in a TPM environment for a manufacturing company and improve the overall production planning and control system from manual recording to computer aided recording which includes some planning features such as Master Production Scheduling (MPS), monthly capacity planning, operation scheduling and other requirements. A TPM based software program has been developed to ease the process of production planning and control in TPM environment by executing sequential methodology such as problem identification, literature review, problem formulation, data coliection, company operation review, flow chart system and program algorithm before test run in the company. This program has been created in Window format and encoded using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. This software was tailored design based on the present operation at Earntrade Industries which practise Earliest Due Date (EDD) and Short Processing Time (SPT) performance measures. This software has been evaluated at Earntrade Industries for a period of two months to test the overall performance of the application software relevant to the project goal. The system which change from manual to computer aided recording manage to decrease the handling time from manual to computer aided recording by 89.22 % and avoid 100% unwanted human error

Pengawasan Dana Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (BOS) Untuk Sekolah Dasar (SD) Di Dinas Pendidikan Kabupaten Temanggung

School Operational Assistance is the government's program to provide non-personalia operational fund for elementary school as the practitioner of the compulsory education. This research aims to describe and analyze the practice of controlling the School Operational Assistance in Elementary School in Education Board of Temanggung Regency and to identify factors contributing the control of the School Operational Assistance. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The result shows the practice of School Operational Assistance has been going on well based on the control. The factors contributing in the controlling of School Operational Assistance in Elementary School are the change of organization's environment, improvement of organization's complexity, errors and manager's necessary to delegate authority. The control of School Operational Assistance in Elementary School in Education Board of Temanggung Regency need to be improved to minimize errors and increase comprehension of the Technical Instructions. Practitioner time management improvement is needed to increase teamwork in controlling process and meeting schedule for development can be fulfilled in a year

Rugby Fans in Training New Zealand (RUFIT-NZ): protocol for a randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle program for overweight men delivered through professional rugby clubs in New Zealand

Background A healthy lifestyle program that appeals to, and supports, obese New Zealand (NZ) European, Māori (indigenous) and Pasifika men to achieve weight loss is urgently needed. In Scotland, Football Fans in Training (FFIT), a weight management and healthy lifestyle program for overweight and obese men aged 35–65 years , delivered by community coaching staff at professional football clubs, has been shown to be beneficial and cost-effective. A pilot program inspired by FFIT but delivered by professional rugby clubs in NZ (n = 96) was shown to be effective in weight loss, improved physiological outcomes, and adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviors in overweight and obese men. The objective of this trial is to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Rugby Fans in Training New Zealand (RUFIT-NZ) program. Methods A pragmatic, two-arm, multi-center, randomized controlled trial involving 308 overweight and obese men aged 30–65 years, randomized to either an intervention group (n = 154) or a wait-list control group (n = 154). The intervention-group participated in the 12-week RUFIT-NZ program, a gender-sensitized, healthy lifestyle intervention adapted to the environment and cultural diversity of NZ and delivered through professional rugby clubs. Participants in the intervention group undergo physical training sessions, in addition to workshop-based sessions to learn about nutrition, physical activity, sleep, sedentary behavior, and a range of behavior-change strategies for sustaining a healthier lifestyle. The control group receives the program after 52 weeks. The primary outcome is change in body weight from baseline to 52 weeks. Secondary outcomes include change in body weight at 12 weeks; waist circumference, blood pressure, fitness, and lifestyle behaviors at 12 and 52 weeks; and cost-effectiveness. A process evaluation informed by the RE-AIM framework will evaluate potential implementation of RUFIT-NZ as an ongoing program in NZ after the trial. Discussion This trial will investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the RUFIT-NZ program in overweight and obese NZ men

A combined representation for the maintenance of C programs

A programmer wishing to make a change to a piece of code must first gain a full understanding of the behaviours and functionality involved. This process of program comprehension is difficult and time consuming, and often hindered by the absence of useful program documentation. Where documentation is absent, static analysis techniques are often employed to gather programming level information in the form of data and control flow relationships, directly from the source code itself. Software maintenance environments are created by grouping together a number of different static analysis tools such as program sheers, call graph builders and data flow analysis tools, providing a maintainer with a selection of 'views' of the subject code. However, each analysis tool often requires its own intermediate program representation (IPR). For example, an environment comprising five tools may require five different IPRs, giving repetition of information and inefficient use of storage space. A solution to this problem is to develop a single combined representation which contains all the program relationships required to present a maintainer with each required code view. The research presented in this thesis describes the Combined C Graph (CCG), a dependence-based representation for C programs from which a maintainer is able to construct data and control dependence views, interprocedural control flow views, program slices and ripple analyses. The CCG extends earlier dependence-based program representations, introducing language features such as expressions with embedded side effects and control flows, value returning functions, pointer variables, pointer parameters, array variables and structure variables. Algorithms for the construction of the CCG are described and the feasibility of the CCG demonstrated by means of a C/Prolog based prototype implementation

Simulating Avionics Upgrades to the Space Shuttles

Cockpit Avionics Prototyping Environment (CAPE) is a computer program that simulates the functions of proposed upgraded avionics for a space shuttle. In CAPE, pre-existing space-shuttle-simulation programs are merged with a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) display-development program, yielding a package of software that enables high-fi46 NASA Tech Briefs, September 2008 delity simulation while making it possible to rapidly change avionic displays and the underlying model algorithms. The pre-existing simulation programs are Shuttle Engineering Simulation, Shuttle Engineering Simulation II, Interactive Control and Docking Simulation, and Shuttle Mission Simulator playback. The COTS program Virtual Application Prototyping System (VAPS) not only enables the development of displays but also makes it possible to move data about, capture and process events, and connect to a simulation. VAPS also enables the user to write code in the C or C++ programming language and compile that code into the end-product simulation software. As many as ten different avionic-upgrade ideas can be incorporated in a single compilation and, thus, tested in a single simulation run. CAPE can be run in conjunction with any or all of four simulations, each representing a different phase of a space-shuttle flight

ANALYSING THE INFLUENCE OF THE REINFORCED CONCRETE CHIMNEY GEOMETRY CHANGES ON THE STRESSES IN THE CHIMNEY SHAFT

Analysis of the reinforced concrete chimney geometry changes and their influence on the stresses in the chimney mantle was made. All the changes were introduced to a model chimney and compared. Relations between the stresses in the mantle of the chimney and the deformations determined by the change of the chimney's vertical axis geometry were investigated. The vertical axis of chimney was described by linear function (corresponding to the real rotation of the chimney together with the foundation), and by parabolic function (corresponding to the real dislocation of the chimney under the influence of the horizontal forces - wind). The positive stress pattern in the concrete as well as the negative stress pattern in the reinforcing steel have been presented. The two cases were compared. Analysis of the stress changes in the chimney mantle depending on the modification in the thickness of the mantle (the thickness of the chimney mantle was altered in the linear or the abrupt way) was carried out. The relation between the stresses and the chimney's diameter change from the bottom to the top of the chimney was investigated. All the analyses were conducted by means of a specially developed computer program created in Mathematica environment. The program makes it also possible to control calculations and to visualize the results of the calculations at every stage of the calculation process

Intervensi untuk Mengatasi Gangguan Perilaku Menentang Anak dengan Parent Management Training

Parent Management Training, in psychology, is one of the intervention for parents in solving problems, especially parents whose children with opposing behavior disorder. This method of training employs behaviour modification technique and the principals of individual study process in changing behavior, that is, in this writing, childrens opposing behavior. In the Parent Management Training program, parents will be trained to be a trainer or therapist in which the assumption they have is the biggest potential to change the childrens behavior for they have the biggest control to the important aspects in childrens natural environment. Besides that, it will enable the children to actualize their newly learned behavior since they do not have to undergo the process received by the therapists into their homes. The focus in solving problems through the Parent Management Training approach is on dyadic relationship and the behavior symptoms is the base in performing intervention. In this particular intervention, parents and therapists work together, in which parents must be willing to do the program that has been compiled in order to change the targets behavior