Cockpit management and Specific Behavioral Objectives (SBOs)

One of the primary tools used to accomplish the task of effective training is the specific behavioral objective (SBO). An SBO is simply a statement which specifically identifies a small segment of the final behavior sought, and a little more. The key word is specific. The company pinpoints exactly what it is it wants the pilot to do after completing training, and what it should evaluate from the point of view of both the program and the pilot. It tells the junior crewmember exactly, specifically, what he should monitor and support insofar as the management function is concerned. It gives greater meaning to the term second in command. And finally, it tells the supervisory pilot exactly what he should observe, evaluate, and instruct, insofar as the management function is concerned

‘Has anyone here seen Amos?’ – re-establishing ‘prophetic imagination’ at the centre of religious education and formation

In 1989 Australian author and illustrator Bob Graham published a children’s book entitled Has anyone here seen William? This article seeks to construct a parallel narrative in relation to the category of the prophet, with a particular focus on the need to engage in prophetic imagination within the twin contexts of religious education (hereafter R.E.) and formation. In doing so it also makes reference to one of the archetypical biblical prophets - Amos. The article’s primary interlocutor is scripture scholar Walter Brueggemann (1982, 2002a, 2002b) who has written on topics as diverse as scripture exegesis and the theology of pain and homecoming. He has also written prominently on prophetic imagination, understood as the capacity to stand outside the dominant discourse or power structure of one’s day and critique it. As we will demonstrate throughout the article, Brueggemann’s scholarship in this area is complemented and refined through contact with the African-American philosopher Cornel West’s (1999) approach to prophetic critique, along with other commentators. Held together, both thinkers impel us to consider why teaching ‘about prophets’ needs to be complemented by an explicit cultivation of prophetic imagination, and how this might be seeded in crucial contexts such as religious education and formation. Following a brief introduction (part one) the second part explores the nature of the prophetic challenge. Part three focuses on recovery of the prophetic imagination, while part four examines ways to cultivate the prophetic imagination today. The final section considers conclusions and future directions in relation to topics raised throughout the paper

Using measures of emotions to improve work climate, products and decisionmaking

Individual emotions can be measured and interactive patterns of emotions can be interpreted to provide insights about the emotional state of individuals. This article describes the merger of two disparate methodologies, one which provides the means for measuring emotions and another which provides for analysis of the complex patterns of emotions to produce meaningful interpretations. Traditionally, measures of emotions have been used in clinical settings for therapeutic purposes. In this paper we explore the use of measures of emotions for business purposes. Specifically we provide examples of how information about an individual’s emotions can be used to improve organizational climate, improve product design, and improve decision-making.decision-making, measuring emotions, nonlinear, product design.

Timed walking tests correlate with daily step activity in individuals with stroke

Objectives To examine the relationship among 4 clinical measures of walking ability and the outputs of the StepWatch Activity Monitor in participants with stroke. Design Correlational study. Setting Clinic and participants' usual environments. Participants Fifty participants more than 6 months after stroke were recruited. All participants were able to walk independently, but with some residual difficulty. Interventions Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI), Rivermead Motor Assessment (RMA), six-minute walk test (6MWT), ten-meter walk test (10MWT), StepWatch outputs (based on daily step counts and stepping rates). Results The correlations between the RMA and all StepWatch outputs were low (ρ=0.36–0.48; P<.05), as were most for the RMI (ρ=0.31–0.52; P<.05). The 10MWT and 6MWT had moderate to high correlations (ρ=0.51–0.73; P<.01) with most StepWatch outputs. Multiple regression showed that the 6MWT was the only significant predictor for most StepWatch outputs, accounting for between 38% and 54% of the variance. Age and the RMI were further significant predictors of 1 and 2 outputs, respectively. Conclusions The 6MWT has the strongest relationship with the StepWatch outputs and may be a better test than the 10MWT to predict usual walking performance. However, it should be remembered that the 6MWT explains only half the variability in usual walking performance. Thus, activity monitoring captures aspects of walking performance not captured by other clinical tests and should be considered as an additional outcome measure in stroke rehabilitation

On Idempotent Measures of Small Norm

In this Master’s Thesis, we set up the groundwork for [8], a paper co-written by the author and Hung Pham. We summarise the Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes algebras on both abelian and general locally compact groups. Let Г be a locally compact group. We answer two questions left open in [11] and [13]: 1. When Г is abelian, we prove that if ϰs ∈ B(Г) is an idempotent with norm 1 < ||ϰs|| < 4/3 then S is the union of two cosets of an open subgroup of Г. 2. For general Г, we prove that if ϰs ∈ McbA(Г) is an idempotent with norm ||ϰs||cb < 1+√2/2 , then S is an open coset in Г

Public libraries and their uses

Citation: Mudge, Mary. Public libraries and their uses. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1905.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: The public library, as all other social institutions, has undergone many changes in its growth. At first these libraries were formed for the purpose of preserving books and docurnents, rather than as a means of providing reading for the public. It is impossible to state when the first collection was made, but indications of such collections are found in the inscription bricks and tablets buried in Egypt, which scholars today have agreed, belonged to a period as far back as the year 2000 B.C. It would seem that the history of public libraries would date from the first forms of writing, as people have saved their books since they have had any to save. Perhaps the earliest recorded collection of books is the one of an Egyptian king, Ramses 1,1400 B.C., which bore the inscription, "Dispensary of the Soul", showing how early the library came to be recognized as a force in civilization. Many of these early collections were of clay, baked brick, and later the papyrus and parchments. Some of them were very well regulated; the books catalogued and arranged systematically on the shelves, many of them being chained. Scattered records of different libraries are found from now on, in Africa, and Asia, these countries, rather than Europe, taking the lead. Perhaps one of the most noted of the early libraries is the Alexandrian library, which was destroyed shout A.D. 640. There is much dispute over the library the number of volumes varying from seven to one hundred thousand, but it would seem more probable to suppose that it contained even less than seven thousand, unless each chapter, as was sometimes the custom, was considered as a volume. The monasteries have been of the greatest aid in tracing back the history of libraries, as it was there that the collections were kept during the periods of revolutions, until the revival of learning when they were preserved at all. These copies were often very imperfect and poorly written, but they serve as the connecting link through this period. The order of the Benedictines was the leader in the revival of learning and very valuable libraries have been established through their efforts

An analysis of FPGA-based custom computers for DSP applications

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can be rapidly reconfigured to provide different digital logic functions. When such FPGA logic circuits are incorporated within a stored-program computer, the result is a machine where the programmer can design both the software and the hardware that will execute that software. This paper first surveys this area of custom computing. It then describes a new custom computing architecture which uses a processing node with three sections: a standard arithmetic chip, static RAM and reconfigurable logic for operand handling. Finally an analysis of the suitability of this new approach for implementation of DSP applications shows it to be worthy of further investigation