READ @your library Gregory Mislick & Daniel Nussbaum (bookmark)

A project of the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School.Book title: Cost Estimation, Methods and Tool

SURGE Newsletter Summer 2023

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SURGE Newsletter Winter 2023

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SURGE Newsletter Spring 2024

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SURGE Nwesletter Spring 2025

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SURGE Newsletter Fall 2023

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SURGE Newsletter Fall 2024

This quarterly publication is intended to provide easy access to EAG activities, energy-related projects across the DOD, NATO, Academia, and industry, and provide a pathway for student energy thesis research. EAG is one of the cross-cutting Academic Groups at NPS. Our mission is to create a Center of Excellence for Defense Energy, and we do this across three pillars that will be highlighted in future newsletters: curriculum, research and outreach

SURGE Newsletter Spring 2023

This quarterly publication is intended to provide easy access to EAG activities, energy-related projects across the DOD, NATO, Academia, and industry, and provide a pathway for student energy thesis research. EAG is one of the cross-cutting Academic Groups at NPS. Our mission is to create a Center of Excellence for Defense Energy, and we do this across three pillars that will be highlighted in future newsletters: curriculum, research and outreach

Less Is More - Estimation of the Number of Strides Required to Assess Gait Variability in Spatially Confined Settings

Background: Gait variability is an established marker of gait function that can be assessed using sensor-based approaches. In clinical settings, spatial constraints and patient condition impede the execution of longer distance walks for the recording of gait parameters. Turning paradigms are often used to overcome these constraints and commercial gait analysis systems algorithmically exclude turns for gait parameters calculations. We investigated the effect of turns in sensor-based assessment of gait variability. Methods: Continuous recordings from 31 patients with movement disorders (ataxia, essential tremor and Parkinson's disease) and 162 healthy elderly (HE) performing level walks including 180° turns were obtained using an inertial sensor system. Accuracy of the manufacturer's algorithm of turn-detection was verified by plotting stride time series. Strides before and after turn events were extracted and compared to respective average of all strides. Coefficient of variation (CoV) of stride length and stride time was calculated for entire set of strides, segments between turns and as cumulative values. Their variance and congruency was used to estimate the number of strides required to reliably assess the magnitude of stride variability. Results: Non-detection of turns in 5.8% of HE lead to falsely increased CoV for these individuals. Even after exclusion of these, strides before/after turns tended to be spatially shorter and temporally longer in all groups, contributing to an increase of CoV at group level and widening of confidence margins with increasing numbers of strides. This could be attenuated by a more generous turn excision as an alternative approach. Correlation analyses revealed excellent consistency for CoVs after at most 20 strides in all groups. Respective stride counts were even lower in patients using a more generous turn excision. Conclusion: Including turns to increase continuous walking distance in spatially confined settings does not necessarily improve the validity and reliability of gait variability measures. Specifically with gait pathology, perturbations of stride characteristics before/after algorithmically excised turns were observed that may increase gait variability with this paradigm. We conclude that shorter distance walks of around 15 strides suffice for reliable and valid recordings of gait variability in the groups studied here

Team 8: Investigation of the Impact of Ship Loading Strategies on USMC MPF Arrival and Assembly

from Scythe : Proceedings and Bulletin of the International Data Farming Community, Issue 9 Workshop 21The U.S. Marine Corps' Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) enables the rapid deployment of Marine forces to permissive areas of operations. The MPF consists of more then a dozen ships divided between three squadrons. Each squadron supports a notional Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) and is based in one of three locations: the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, or the Mediterranean