243 research outputs found
Multiple Miniature Avionic Displays
A display screen for displaying multiple sets of information is provided. In one embodiment, an aviation display screen includes a main window and a plurality of miniature windows. The main window is adapted to illustrate one set of information. Each miniature window is adapted to display a set of avionic information. The avionic display is further adapted to toggle a select set of avionic information in one of the miniature windows into the main window
Investigation of a Recharge Basin to Improve Drought Resiliency and Aquifer Sustainability Rock Valley Rural Water
https://ir.uiowa.edu/igs_wrir/1017/thumbnail.jp
Jefferson groundwater investigation Greene County, Iowa
https://ir.uiowa.edu/igs_tis/1054/thumbnail.jp
Aquifer Sustainability at the Osceola County Rural Water System H-Series Wellfield
https://ir.uiowa.edu/igs_wrir/1019/thumbnail.jp
Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF): Indiana-Purdue Grid (IP-Grid)
NSF Award ID: ACI-0338618
Project Dates: 10/1/03-9/30/0
Improving Survey Methods with Cognitive Interviews in Small- and Medium-scale Evaluations
Findings derived from self-reported, structured survey questionnaires are commonly used in evaluation and applied research to inform policy-making and program decisions. Although there are a variety of issues related to the quality of survey evidence (e.g., sampling precision), the validity of response processes–how respondents process thoughts and perceptions when answering questionnaires–is crucial. We assess the extent to which cognitive interviews, used to test survey questions as part of the process of questionnaire design and refinement, can strengthen the quality of survey evidence for small- and medium-scale evaluations. To illustrate how cognitive interviews can reveal respondents' response processes and improved questionnaire interpretations, we present excerpts from two types of evaluations (e.g., needs assessment) in two domains (e.g., education). The paper concludes with a brief summary about how the use of cognitive interviews can be augmented in survey development, refinement, and adaptation to improve survey questionnaire interpretations in evaluations with limited resources.Ope
Fecal coliform disappearance in a river impoundment
Fecal coliform (FC) disappearance studies were conducted in Ford Lake during the summer of 1979. Ford Lake, an artificial impoundment at the lower end of the Huron River drainage basin below Ypsilanti, Michigan, receives all upstream flow (2072 km2 of drainage). During dry weather an overall daytime FC disappearance rate of 0.4 (h-1) (K base e) was measured using dye tracer for timed collection. assuming a first order equation of the Chick type. Sedimentation was demonstrated as important in the overall FC disappearance in the upper end of the lake. Rooftop studies showed light level to affect daytime disappearance. Two types of wet weather conditions were documented: (1) where a substantial increase in flow occurred due to an isolated upriver storm; and (2) as a result of two different storm events in the Ford Lake area itself. In both cases, Ford Lake was effective in substantially reducing the large FC contribution.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25455/1/0000905.pd
Distribution of event complexity in the British Columbia court system an analysis based on the CourBC analytical system
Modeling Policy and Agricultural Decisions in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is responsible for the majority of the world's supply of poppy
crops, which are often used to produce illegal narcotics like heroin. This
paper presents an agent-based model that simulates policy scenarios to
characterize how the production of poppy can be dampened and replaced with
licit crops over time. The model is initialized with spatial data, including
transportation network and satellite-derived land use data. Parameters
representing national subsidies, insurgent influence, and trafficking blockades
are varied to represent different conditions that might encourage or discourage
poppy agriculture. Our model shows that boundary-level interventions, such as
targeted trafficking blockades at border locations, are critical in reducing
the attractiveness of growing this illicit crop. The principle of least effort
implies that interventions decrease to a minimal non-regressive point, leading
to the prediction that increases in insurgency or other changes are likely to
lead to worsening conditions, and improvements require substantial jumps in
intervention resources.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures; GeoJournal, 2012, 10.1007/s10708-012-9453-
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