The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Test Beam Monitoring Program

During 2003 test beam session for ATLAS Tile Calorimeter a monitoring program has been developed to ease the setup of correct running condition and the assessment of data quality. The program has been built using the Online Software services provided by the ATLAS Online Software group. The first part of this note contains a brief overview of these services followed by the full description of Tile Calorimeter monitoring program architecture and features. Performances and future upgrades are discussed in the final part of this note.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, ATLAS TILECAL Not

"Pride and Prejudice" di Jane Austen: trasformazioni dal romanzo al film

Questa tesi ha l'obiettivo di mettere in risalto le principali differenze tra il romanzo di Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice" e l'omonimo adattamento cinematografico del 2005 diretto da Joe Wright. Vengono messi a confronto i personaggi del romanzo con i loro corrispondenti nel film e vengono analizzate le differenze che li distinguono. Si parla anche della grande popolarità del romanzo nell'era attuale e del fatto che autori come Helen Fielding si siano ispirati ad esso. Pride and Prejudice è un romanzo intramontabile e dà alla Fielding un input nello scrivere Bridget Jones's Diary, tanto che per certi versi si parla di "stolen plot and characters" in quanto sia la trama che i personaggi ricordano quelli di Pride and Prejudice, ma, allo stesso tempo,l'autrice si distacca dal romanzo della Austen per creare un'eroina del tutto diversa da Elizabeth Bennet e soprattutto una donna indipendente che cerca il vero amore, ma che ha dei problemi che le impediscono di essere felice: uno tra questi è il suo peso corporeo, quindi vuole dimagrire proprio perché nella società moderna l'essere magro è indice di bellezza. Alla fine, però sarà l'amore a prendere il sopravvento nella sua vita e lei sarà finalmente felice proprio come Elizabeth

A proposition of 3D inertial tolerancing to consider the statistical combination of the location and orientation deviations

Tolerancing of assembly mechanisms is a major interest in the product life cycle. One can distinguish several models with growing complexity, from 1-dimensional (1D) to 3-dimensional (3D) (including form deviations), and two main tolerancing assumptions, the worst case and the statistical hypothesis. This paper presents an approach to 3D statistical tolerancing using a new acceptance criterion. Our approach is based on the 1D inertial acceptance criterion that is extended to 3D and form acceptance. The modal characterisation is used to describe the form deviation of a geometry as the combination of elementary deviations (location, orientation and form). The proposed 3D statistical tolerancing is applied on a simple mechanism with lever arm. It is also compared to the traditional worst-case tolerancing using a tolerance zone

Software debugging techniques

This lecture provides an introduction to debugging, a crucial activity in every developer's life. After an elementary discussion of some useful debugging concepts, the lecture goes on with a detailed review of general debugging techniques, independent of any speci c software. The nal part of the lecture is dedicated to analysing problems related to the use of C++ , the main programming language commonly employed in particle physics nowadays

La ricerca e il gruppo esperienziale nell’ambito del progetto “www…parliamonepure.it” realizzato nel carcere di Castelvetrano (TP)

Nel panorama nazionale si discute poco degli autori dei reati sessuali, infatti l’attenzione dell’opinione pubblica e dei diversi attori sociali è più rivolta alle vittime dei reati sessuali. Ancora poco si affronta il problema legato al trattamento dei pedofili e dei violentatori di donne, nonostante l’argomento meriti approfondimenti anche in ambito penitenziario. Appare necessario ed opportuno individuare, nell’ambito del lavoro trattamentale, un modello operativo finalizzato alla ricerca di strategie che orientino il condannato per reati sessuali verso un percorso di analisi degli agiti. Ciò assume una rilevanza particolare nel trattamento dei detenuti sex offenders, pur riconoscendo la valenza del percorso trattamentale rivolto a qualsiasi tipologia di detenuti. L’esperienza realizzata presso la Casa Circondariale di Castelvetrano, descritta nel presente articolo, ha consentito, attraverso l’uso di una metodologia di lavoro di gruppo, di rilevare a carico dei soggetti partecipanti un quadro di consistente difficoltà nei percorsi di approfondimento e di analisi personale. In Italy, there has been little discussion about sex offenders. In fact, public and social actors’ attention has focused more on the victims of sex crimes rather than on criminals, so little importance is given to resocialization programs for paedophiles and rapists, even if this topic is worth exploring particularly in prisons. In the treatment phase, it is necessary and considered appropriate to identify an operational model aimed to orientate the sex offenders towards a process of analysis of their deviant behaviours. Through the methodology of the experiential group, the project carried out at Castelvetrano prison has highlighted the severe difficulties in personal analysis encountered by the sex offenders involved

Reingeniería del circuito administrativo. El caso de la reestructuración organizacional en una unidad académica de una universidad pública.

El análisis de una organización así como la planificación y ejecución de sus proyectos se basa en decisiones tomadas sobre datos e información, indispensables para el control y mejora de la gestión desde una visión integral. Las observaciones realizadas durante el proceso de Autoevaluación 2004 de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora condujeron a la necesidad de contar con un sistema informático que simplificara e hiciera más eficiente la tarea del área administrativa a la vez que congruente con el sistema solicitado por la Secretaría de Políticas Universitarias, de manera de poder funcionar de forma funcional comunicacionalmente articulada. El presente trabajo describe la reestructuración llevada a cabo en el área administrativa en forma de reconcepción y rediseño de los procesos (Hammer y Champy, 1994), para poder comenzar con la implementación de un nuevo sistema de información que integre la organización toda. El desafío constituía en lograr una solución integral que contemplara la heterogeneidad de situaciones y de necesidades existentes (Gurmendi y Williams, 2006)

Modeling of 2D and 3D Assemblies Taking Into Account Form Errors of Plane Surfaces

The tolerancing process links the virtual and the real worlds. From the former, tolerances define a variational geometrical language (geometric parameters). From the latter, there are values limiting those parameters. The beginning of a tolerancing process is in this duality. As high precision assemblies cannot be analyzed with the assumption that form errors are negligible, we propose to apply this process to assemblies with form errors through a new way of allowing to parameterize forms and solve their assemblies. The assembly process is calculated through a method of allowing to solve the 3D assemblies of pairs of surfaces having form errors using a static equilibrium. We have built a geometrical model based on the modal shapes of the ideal surface. We compute for the completely deterministic contact points between this pair of shapes according to a given assembly process. The solution gives an accurate evaluation of the assembly performance. Then we compare the results with or without taking into account the form errors. When we analyze a batch of assemblies, the problem is to compute for the nonconformity rate of a pilot production according to the functional requirements. We input probable errors of surfaces (position, orientation, and form) in our calculus and we evaluate the quality of the results compared with the functional requirements. The pilot production then can or cannot be validated

The pilot dimension method: Reconciling Steering and Conformity in Workshops

International audienceIn machining workshops, workpieces are produced according to dimensions known as manufacturing dimensions. For the same workpiece and the same manufacturing plan, several sets of manufacturing dimensions can be used but none satisfy simultaneously the two main missions workshops need to fulfil: (a) Ensuring conformity of products to their design dimension tolerances (also called blueprint tolerances) and (b) steering machines in order to compensate for tool wear. The set of manufacturing dimensions obtained from the design dimensions using the minimal chain of dimensions method is optimal for a conformity check of workpieces but is practically unusable for steering machines because of the complexity of its relationships toward the tool correctors and tools dimensions. The pilot dimensions method consists in, on the one hand, identifying and representing these tool correctors and these tool/program dimensions on the production drawings (besides the manufacturing dimensions) and, on other the other hand, determining their correction values through a mathematical set of relations after having measured the manufacturing dimensions on a workpiece. Doing so will strongly reduce adjustment time, reduce the number of workpieces used for adjustments and greatly enhance the quality of workpiece batches

Copilot Pro®: A full method for a steering of the machining.

International audienceCopilot Pro® is a method for the initial and regular machine-tools setup, developed by the Symme laboratory of the Savoy University and by the Technical Center of Industries of Screw-machining (Ctdec) in France. Its first step is the organization of the different machining operations, in setup steps, themselves subdivided into measuring steps. The second step consists in determining the manufacturing dimensions to measure at the end of each measuring step. Finally, the third step consists in linking the manufacturing dimensions to both the correctors and the tool-dimensions, in the aim of calculating the corrections that have to be done in function of the deviations measured on the manufacturing dimensions. With this method, the steering of an industrial workpiece is performed with two steering parts instead of ten before