Registration Management System (RMS)

The Registration Service at CERN is responsible for the registration of all the external staff working for CERN. There are many agreements with the host states, distinguishing the different work permits. Registration is carried out via the Human Resource (HR) database interface, based on Oracle Forms. This interface is very flexible but allows faulty or non-consistent database entries. Official documents are archived as paper copies. The RMS project was launched to define and develop the utilities for a new 'easy to use' user interface allowing the pre-registration of persons by their employers. Guided system and error detection procedures ensure consistent data. Powerful data retrieval systems simplify the search for persons and allow a large variety of listings. Official documents are also stored electronically and are accessible to authorized users

AMS-AC (Authorization Management System) and databases for access control

The concept for AMS-AC (Authorization Management System for Access Control) was developed in 1996/1997 with the participation of the Divisions AS, DSU, PE, PPE, ST and TIS. It covers the entrance rules to CERN, the types of CERN cards, and the access authorizations to controlled areas. The former paper-based procedure to obtain an access authorization has been transferred to a database driven system with electronic signatures. All necessary information are stored in the human resource database (HR). From there, the data is distributed to all card readers at CERN. A UNIX server controls the updating of the authorization data and performs automatic data transfers. Additionally, several procedures have been developed: 1) HTML-based on-line database checks for immediate data control; 2) Database verification procedures; 3) Automatic information distribution

Infrastructure, Urban Sprawl, and Naturally-Occurring Asbestos: An Ontological Thought Model for Wicked and Saving Technologies

Recently, geologists in Southern Nevada discovered new deposits of naturally occurring asbestos and microscopic fibers in rocks and soil. The danger is that inhaling them can lead to mesothelioma. One problem is that this rare cancer often takes decades to manifest. This discovery abruptly stalled a highway project near Las Vegas. Due to this condition, management developed numerous protocols to keep workers safe. Using this case as a thought model, the author challenges an established way of categorizing kinds of technologies as they relate to the concept of being. In turn, this thought model reveals that climate change alters the conditions for being, as recognized in the literature. Advancing this conversation requires that we must reclassify some technologies and develop a categorization for those that reflect a different way of thinking as it concerns being

Annie Davis Collection - Accession 1324

Annie Davis Epting (1888-1974) was a 1909 graduate of Winthrop College. The collection contains personal items of Annie Davis including photographs, postcards, letters, Winthrop memorabilia, sewing items, and other miscellaneous artifacts, pertaining to her Winthrop career, teaching career, and passion for needlework.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2139/thumbnail.jp

Annie Davis Collection - Accession 1628

Annie Davis (1888-1974) was a 1909 graduate of Winthrop College. The collection contains news articles about Winthrop College, Winthrop College Alumnae newsletter, as well as random news clippings from her lifetime. Also included are letters between Annie Davis and friends, her husband, and her son from his time in WWII.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2631/thumbnail.jp

The Philosophical Dimensions of Urban Transportation: Introduction

Geographers, urban planners, and interdisciplinary scholars have made numerous contributions toward understanding urban transportation. Until recently, philosophers have largely neglected the topic, but now transportation is an expanding area of research, most notably in the emerging subfield known as philosophy of the city. This special issue aims to increase philosophical contributions to its study. Those who are working in this area are examining several subjects that were previously ignored. Transportation is one such topic. The articles in this special edition make this claim evident. Philosophy of the city is informed by several other subfields, and these articles on urban mobility make that notion apparent. They rely on insights from other areas of philosophy such as aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of technology, feminist philosophy, and phenomenology

Transportation Planning for Automated Vehicles -- Or Automated Vehicles for Transportation Planning?

In recent years, philosophical examinations of automated vehicles have progressed far beyond initial concerns over the ethical decisions that pertain to programming in the event of a crash. In turn, this paper moves in that direction, focusing on the motivations behind efforts to implement driverless vehicles into urban settings. The author argues that the many perceived benefits of these technologies yield a received view of automated vehicles. This position holds that driverless vehicles can solve most if not all urban mobility issues. However, the problem with such an outlook is that it lends itself to transportation planning for automated vehicles, rather than using them as part of planning efforts that could serve urban mobility. Due to this condition, present efforts aimed at improving transportation systems should resist dogmatic thinking. Instead, they should focus on goals that keep topics such a human flourishing, sustainability, and transportation justice firmly in view