The Need for a Data Ecosystem for Youth Mental Health in The Netherlands

The Netherlands is missing nationally representative data on child and adolescent mental health, e.g., on prevalence, course, and consequences of psychological disorders and mental health care utilization. Researchers and policy makers also lack a basic data infrastructure that is necessary to provide timely and reliable data crucial for benchmarking and informed decision making. In this article, we describe the necessity for a clear and well-organized overview of data on youth mental health and mental health care. We look back on three key moments in time to illustrate the breadth of the desire for data. Barriers in collecting structured, national data on a frequent basis are discussed, and several recommendations are provided of what is needed to move towards a data ecosystem that can help us to track the development and mental well-being of all children and youth and the impact of the care they receive.</p

Mission planning and navigation support for lunar and planetary exploration

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Page 221 blank.Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220).When mankind returns to the moon and eventually voyages to Mars, the ability to effectively carry out surface extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) ill be critical to overall mission success. This thesis investigates improving planetary EVAs via a support system to enable optimized mission operations. In order to develop a robustly effective aid capable of performing under the high time pressure, risk, and uncertainty inherent in space exploration, key surface operation factors are examined to understand to best fit role of automated support within complex, changing exploration situations. A detailed characterization of the makeup and challenges of planetary surface EVAs was used to establish a specific framework for maximizing the productivity of these missions. Recognizing the need for automated support in achieving such optimal performance, the presentation of methods by which all pertinent mission factors may be quantitatively modeled led to creation of a comprehensive automated mission support architecture. Based on this analysis and motivated by ongoing field testing, a prototype mission support system was developed with twofold intent: both for pre-mission planning and simulation as well as for real-time explorer navigation and re-planning. The prototype presents an intuitive interface where controllers may quickly represent a broad range of mission parameters and scenarios in order to determine a best course of action for immediate execution. Specifically, this system optimizes explorer traverses with respect to given cost functions via a novel implementation of the A* search algorithm. Developed plans may further be linked to a global positioning system to empower real-time team navigation.(cont.) Through the completion of experimental EVA simulations involving physical explorers on a remote terrain jointly controlled by a multi-university team, the developed system was shown to robustly respond to situational updates and contingencies to maintain optimal mission performance in near real-time, offering enhanced functionality where preceding systems fell short. The analysis closes with a discussion on the opportunities for such a system as well as potential areas for further improvement.by Joseph R. Essenburg.S.M

A noção de obra de arte em Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia.O que levou Merleau-Ponty a mudar sua linha de pesquisa para saber do mundo perceptivo. Este novo caminho nos faz entender o ponto de ligação entre o mundo da percepção e a cultura. Primeiro tenta mostrar que devemos levar em conta a nossa inserção corporal no mundo para podermos perceber as coisas a nossa volta. Nos textos tardios pensa sobre a natureza desta inserção corporal, reconhecendo, na espontaneidade de nossa inserção mundana, a mesma estrutura espontânea que caracteriza a nossa vivência do tempo. A questão agora seria pensar não o que é a espontaneidade do mundo ou a espontaneidade do sujeito, mas como, junto às construções da cultura, algo de espontâneo pode se exprimir. Neste caminho é a arte que ensina a Merleau-Ponty como interrogar a espontaneidade do mundo da percepção, levando-nos à uma noção de obra de arte

The Need for a Data Ecosystem for Youth Mental Health in The Netherlands

The Netherlands is missing nationally representative data on child and adolescent mental health, e.g., on prevalence, course, and consequences of psychological disorders and mental health care utilization. Researchers and policy makers also lack a basic data infrastructure that is necessary to provide timely and reliable data crucial for benchmarking and informed decision making. In this article, we describe the necessity for a clear and well-organized overview of data on youth mental health and mental health care. We look back on three key moments in time to illustrate the breadth of the desire for data. Barriers in collecting structured, national data on a frequent basis are discussed, and several recommendations are provided of what is needed to move towards a data ecosystem that can help us to track the development and mental well-being of all children and youth and the impact of the care they receive

Versuitstraling én houdbaarheid gewaarborgd : milde conserveringstechnieken getest

Het Instituut voor Agrotechnologisch Onderzoek (ATO) in Wageningen ontwikkelt milde conserveringsmethoden voor een verlengde houdbaarheid van voeding en dranken met behoud van de kraak, de smaak en de geur die versheid suggerere