Knob linkage permits one-hand control of several operations

Electromechanical device with single knob provides one-hand control of numerous electrical or mechanical functions. The principle of this design may have application to remote-control switching devices

Noxious weed survey of the U.S. Air Force Academy and Farish Outdoor Recreation Area - 2007

Prepared for: U.S. Air Force Academy, Dept. of Natural Resources.April 30, 2008.Includes bibliographical references

Noxious weed monitoring at the U.S. Air Force Academy: year 2 results

Prepared for: U.S. Air Force Academy, Dept. of Natural Resources.June 26, 2007.Includes bibliographical references

Declarative Scheduling for Active Objects

International audienceActive objects are programming constructs that abstract dis- tribution and help to handle concurrency. In this paper, we extend the multiactive object programming model to offer a priority specification mechanism. This mechanism allows programmers to have control on the scheduling of requests. The priority representation is based on a dependency graph which makes it very convenient to use. This article shows how to use this mechanism from the programmer side, and exposes the main properties of the dependency graph. The software architecture of our implementation is also presented, as it can be applied to various scheduling systems. Finally, we validate our approach through a microbenchmark that shows that the overhead of our priority representation is rather low. On the whole, we provide a general pattern to introduce a prioritized scheduling in active objects or in any other con- current systems. The resulting framework is shown to be fine-grained, user-friendly, and efficient

Noxious weed monitoring at the U.S. Air Force Academy: year 6 results

Prepared for: U.S. Air Force Academy, Dept. of Natural Resources.April 2011.Includes bibliographical references

Noxious weed survey of Peterson Air Force Base

Includes bibliographical references.October 31, 2003.Prepared for: Peterson Air Force Base, Dept. of Natural Resources; prepared by: David G. Anderson, Amy Lavender and Ron Abbott

Noxious weed survey of the U.S. Air Force Academy and Farish Outdoor Recreation Area

Prepared for: U.S. Air Force Academy, Dept. of Natural Resources.April 15, 2003.Includes bibliographical references

Noxious weed monitoring at the U.S. Air Force Academy: year 4 results

Prepared for: U.S. Air Force Academy, Dept. of Natural Resources.August 15, 2009.Includes bibliographical references

Exploring health professionals’ and women's awareness of models of maternity care evidence

A Cochrane systematic review has shown midwife-led continuity models of care provide explicit benefits for mothers and babies compared with other models of maternity care, with a comparable level of safety. The Cochrane review has had much international impact. This study explored the local impact of the review, alongside other midwife-led care evidence and guidelines. Electronic surveys were undertaken exploring women's and health professionals' awareness of models of maternity care evidence, including midwife-led care and homebirth, and how they utilise evidence to guide their choices and practice. A low awareness of much of the available evidence was shown among the women and the professionals. There is a need for better dissemination of information to professionals as they are women's preferred source of information about the options available for place of birth and midwife-led care

Specifying and Inheriting Concurrent Behavior in an Actor-BasedObject-Oriented Language

Using CCS behavior equations to specify and reason about the observable behavior of concurrent objects, we demonstrate that a language mechanism called a behavior set can be used to capture the behavior of actor-like objects. Using behavior equations as a formal representation of concurrent object behavior results in the explication of a mapping from the domain of objects to a domain of behavior sets. We call this mapping the behavior function. By expressing relevant object states, behavior sets and the behavior function as first-class, inheritable, and mutable entities in a concurrent object-oriented language, we have defined the conditions which must be met in order to inherit concurrent behavior free of known anomalies