Building data systems for monitoring and responding to violence against women: recommendations from a workshop

This report provides recommendations regarding public health surveillance and research on violence against women developed during a workshop, "Building Data Systems for Monitoring and Responding to Violence Against Women." The Workshop, which was convened October 29-30, 1998, was co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Justice.Background -- -- Introduction -- -- The Work Groups -- Work Group on Defining and Measuring VAW -- Work Group on State and Local Data for Studying and Monitoring VAW -- Work Group on National Data for Studying and Monitoring VAW -- Work Group on New Research Strategies for Studying VAW -- -- Recommendations -- Defining the scope of the problem -- Need for multiple measures/collaboration across disciplines_and agencies -- Developing strategies to collect data on VAW -- Methodologic concerns -- Confidentiality and safety -- -- Conclusions -- -- ReferencesOctober 27, 2000.The following CDC staff members prepared this report: Linda E. Saltzman, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; Lois A. Fingerhut, Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion, National Center for Health Statistics; in collaboration with Michael R. Rand, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice; Christy Visher, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of JusticeIncludes bibliographical references (p. 16)

Mold and Moisture Problems in American Indian and Alaska Native Housing on Tribal Lands: A Report to Congress, Noveber 17, 2003

Presents eight major findings of the study of residential black mold in Native American housing commissioned by U.S. Congress.U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Native American Program

Computing and Informatics, Vol. 23, 2004, 1001--1036

Building complex systems requires a specific kind of modularity as well as incremental development. Here we introduce an architecture where basic modules are reactive agents and the data exchange among them is based on the so-called stigmergic communication through space. In this way we have connected ideas coming from the multi-agent systems and the coordination languages on the one side and ideas of the behavior-based systems on the other side. We demonstrate that this architecture manifests several interesting features which are useful for engineering of real-time systems and modeling of biological creatures or their parts. We advocate for so-called purely reactive agents which are stateless entities usually taken as too weak building blocks of systems. However, their features enable us to use a special method of incremental development (so-called subsumption method). Keywords: (purely) reactive agent, space, stigmergic communication, incremental development, subsumption, multi-agent systems

IFC HDF5 Building Models

This is a set of building models to assess the implications of a binary HDF5-based serialization for Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) building models. This serialization is based on ISO 10303-26, but includes additional profiles tailored to use cases in the building industry

Abstract

This work explores Tcl-Tk 8.0 as a tool to easily build script based GUIs for Ada95 realtime systems. Tcl-Tk 8.0 is a library that makes graphic programming easier, but it suffers from being not thread-safe. TASH is a thick binding that allows Ada95 single threaded code to use Tcl-Tk. An application architecture is proposed, the deferred server, that provides transparent use of Tcl-Tk to multithreaded Ada95 applications vía TASH. We've found that only a minimal extension to Tcl-Tk 8.0 and TASH is required to support it, and a successful prototype has been implemented based on these ideas. Then, the early integration of Tcl-Tk graphic user interfaces in HRT-HOOD designs is investigated and, unfortunately, we conclude that this is not possible. However, a HRT-HOOD conform distributed configuration is outlined where the user interface becomes a multithreaded remote service based on the deferred server architecture. 1

Standard specification for BEMS Version 3.1

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Guide to BEMS Centre standard specification Volume 1

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Staff reaction to building energy management systems

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