Second Eastern Regional Remote Sensing Applications Conference

Participants from state and local governments share experiences in remote sensing applications with one another and with users in the Federal government, universities, and the private sector during technical sessions and forums covering agriculture and forestry; land cover analysis and planning; surface mining and energy; data processing; water quality and the coastal zone; geographic information systems; and user development programs

Managing diversity and European policy: Towards a typology for sport pedagogy

This article adds to the growing body of knowledge in sport pedagogy and focuses specifically upon the intersection of gender and disability. Its purpose is twofold, to create a typology for examining good practice in sport pedagogy that is reflective and inclusive and raises awareness of the diverse needs of all participants in physical activity 'regardless' of gender and ability for all children. We acknowledge that access to physical activity, education and sport are complex and multifaceted, however, the main purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of 'diversity' by focusing specifically upon the role of gender and ability. Through an examination of gender and disability policies in official European Union (EU) policy documents and commercial examples of policy-in-practice we propose a typology for diversity and diversity management. A close look at EU level is instructive because national policies of the member countries vary a lot with respect to diversity issues but should be in accordance in the main areas. Such a reading enables the building of a typology of recommendations for how such policy can be rendered in sport pedagogy practice. We suggest six significant, but related principles that include (1) mainstreaming; (2) teaching and coaching sensitive to difference; (3) empowerment; (4) inclusion; (5) adaptation; and (6) inner differentiation. This holistic typology seeks to 'mainstream' issues of gender and disability policy by providing a set of principles that can be applied to a range of teaching and coaching settings. © 2013 European College of Sport Science

A New General Guidance Method in Constrained Optimal Control - Part 2: Application to Space Shuttle Guidance

. The application and the performance of the neighboring optimal feedback scheme presented in Part 1 of this paper is demonstrated for the heating constrained cross-range maximization problem of a space-shuttle-orbiter-type vehicle. This problem contains five state and two control variables and a state variable inequality constraint of order zero. Key Words. Neighboring extremals, accessory minimum problem, feedback controls, neighboring optimum guidance, multiple shooting, guidance of space vehicles, space shuttle. 1 1. Introduction In Part 1 of this paper a numerical method for the real-time computation of neighboring optimum feedback controls is developed. In order to demonstrate the practical applicability and efficiency of this feedback scheme, we apply our method to a space flight optimization problem which describes the cross-range maximal re-entry of a space-shuttle-type vehicle under a reradiative heating constraint. We have chosen this problem, since it served for many yea..

Malerei in Zeiten der Verfolgung - Impulse für Frieden und Toleranz? Zum 100. Geburtstag von Felix Nussbaum. Diskussion mit Emily D. Bilski, Wieland Schmied, Christoph Stölzl und Inge Jaehner

Textdokumentation zur Veranstaltung der Osnabrücker Friedensgespräche am 14. November 2004 im Jüdischen Museum Berlin aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von Felix Nussbau

A New General Guidance Method in Constrained Optimal Control Part 1: Numerical Method

. A very fast numerical method is developed for the computation of neighboring optimum feedback controls. This method is applicable to a general class of optimal control problems (for example problems including inequality constraints and discontinuities) and needs no on-line computation except for one matrix vector multiplication. The method is based on the so-called accessory minimum problem. The necessary conditions for this auxiliary optimal control problem form a linear multipoint boundary value problem with linear jump conditions which is especially well suited for numerical treatment. In the second part of this paper, the performance of the guidance scheme will be shown for the heating constrained cross-range maximization problem of a Space-Shuttle-orbiter-type vehicle. Key Words. Neighboring extremals, accessory minimum problem, feedback controls, closed loop controls, inequality constraints, multiple shooting. 1 1. Introduction If solutions of optimal control problems, such a..