Mylar film eliminates silk screening of equipment panels

Equipment panel designs and nomenclature are photographed on clear Mylar film to permit fast and inexpensive panel redesigns and revisions and to eliminate the silk screen process. The film is coated with an adhesive and impressed on the panel. For revisions, the film is easily peeled off and replaced

Sea-level rise in Hawaii: Implications for future shoreline locations and Hawaii coastal management

Management of coastal development in Hawaii is based on the location of the certified shoreline, which is representative of the upper limit of marine inundation within the last several years. Though the certified shoreline location is significantly more variable than long-term erosion indicators, its migration will still follow the coastline's general trend. The long-term migration of Hawaii’s coasts will be significantly controlled by rising sea level. However, land use decisions adjacent to the shoreline and the shape and nature of the nearshore environment are also important controls to coastal migration. Though each of the islands has experienced local sea-level rise over the course of the last century, there are still locations across the islands of Kauai, Oahu, and Maui, which show long- term accretion or anomalously high erosion rates relative to their regions. As a result, engineering rules of thumb such as the Brunn rule do not always predict coastal migration and beach profile equilibrium in Hawaii. With coastlines facing all points of the compass rose, anthropogenic alteration of the coasts, complex coastal environments such as coral reefs, and the limited capacity to predict coastal change, Hawaii will require a more robust suite of proactive coastal management policies to weather future changes to its coastline. Continuing to use the current certified shoreline, adopting more stringent coastal setback rules similar to Kauai County, adding realistic sea-level rise components for all types of coastal planning, and developing regional beach management plans are some of the recommended adaptation strategies for Hawaii. (PDF contains 4 pages

Greeting from the president of SCLA

SCLA\u27s 2017 president, Amber Conger, profides a greeting to SCLA members

REVIEW: Cynthia’s Attic: The Missing Locket

Review of the young adult book Cynthia’s Attic: The Missing Locket, by Mary Cunningham

USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTER-UNIT COORDINATION: A CASE STUDY

Organintion, MIS, and media choice theories all try to describe how information flows through a business organization. Organization theory concentrates on the use of interpersonal methods of communications. MIS theory focusses on computer-based technologies for communications. Media choice theory concentrates on factors that contribute to selection of communication medium. Each research area tends to ignore the others. The result is conflicting and often irreconcilable conclusions. One important subset of business communication is the flow of information to coordinate the activities of various units of a company. In this study, the selection of coordination methods for one type of job is analyzed. Based on a case study of equity traders, a theory of information coordination is hypothesized for future empirical evaluation. The hypotheses synthesize and reconcile the organization, MIS, and media choice literature. The case results presented in this work exemplify the hypothesized relationships

Software Development Life Cycles and Methodologies:Fixing the old and adopting the new

Information Systems as a discipline has generated thousands of research papers yet practice still suffers from poor-quality applications. This research evaluates the current state of application development, finding practice wanting in a number of areas. Changes recommended to fix historical shortcomings include improved management attention to risk management, testing, and detailed work practices. In addition, for industry\u27s move to services orientation, recommended changes include development of usable interfaces and a view of applications as embedded in the larger business services in which they function. These business services relate to both services provided to parent-organization customers as well as services provided by the information technology organization to its constituents. Because of this shift toward service orientation, more emphasis on usability, applications, testing, and improvement of underlying process quality are needed. The shift to services can be facilitated by adopting tenets of IT service management and user-centered design and by attending to service delivery during application development