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The Shelby Daily Star July 29, 1970

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PI-in-a-box: Intelligent onboard assistance for spaceborne experiments in vestibular physiology

In construction is a knowledge-based system that will aid astronauts in the performance of vestibular experiments in two ways: it will provide real-time monitoring and control of signals and it will optimize the quality of the data obtained, by helping the mission specialists and payload specialists make decisions that are normally the province of a principal investigator, hence the name PI-in-a-box. An important and desirable side-effect of this tool will be to make the astronauts more productive and better integrated members of the scientific team. The vestibular experiments are planned by Prof. Larry Young of MIT, whose team has already performed similar experiments in Spacelab missions SL-1 and D-1, and has experiments planned for SLS-1 and SLS-2. The knowledge-based system development work, performed in collaboration with MIT, Stanford University, and the NASA-Ames Research Center, addresses six major related functions: (1) signal quality monitoring; (2) fault diagnosis; (3) signal analysis; (4) interesting-case detection; (5) experiment replanning; and (6) integration of all of these functions within a real-time data acquisition environment. Initial prototyping work has been done in functions (1) through (4)

Ralph B. Peck – the One-Page Summary

Ralph B. Peck’s last big project was the Rion-Antirion Bridge in Greece. It was one of his many long projects and was completed in 2004. It received ASCE’s OPAL (Outstanding Projects and Leaders) Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award for 2005. Dad, my husband Allen and I went to see it upon its completion, one of Dad’s last really big trips. Shortly after the end of the project Dad began to receive calls asking him to work on another large venture. Dad politely answered that he was retired, but the gentlemen persisted in calling him, hoping to get him to accept the job. I was with Dad in his office one morning when the phone rang and it was the same caller with the same request. Dad handed me the phone and I listened to his plea and then asked the caller if he knew Dad was 92 years old. There was a stunned silence on the other end of the line. Then the gentleman stammered that he thought Dad was in his 70’s and had no idea that Dad was that old, especially since he had been working recently. He then said that Dad certainly deserved to be retired and hung up. Dad commented that it sounded like an interesting job but that he preferred to be able to complete his jobs and this job would last longer than he would. RBP was the kind of engineer that could pour oil on troubled waters and achieve a compromise that previously had seemed impossible. He could come up with solutions to problems that often before had had seemed insolvable. He would take these problems back to the classroom; the location that he always felt was the most important place to be. This was the area where he was able to guide young minds to solve problems using his information and their logic to finish the equation. Dad loved his work – he loved everything about his work. He liked the challenge of the various projects and enjoyed the people he worked with. He liked nothing more than hiking out in some wilderness where there was going to be a bridge, dam, or a series of dams and figuring out how and sometimes where these projects would take place. He liked discussing the projects with his colleagues and coming up with solutions that fit that particular problem. He liked traveling to various places around the globe and working with the people whose lives would be enriched by his projects. But best of all, Dad liked to use these case studies as learning experiences for his students. Ralph Peck received many awards in his life, some of them extremely prestigious such as the Medal of Science in 1975. However his favorite award was the ASCE OPAL Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Education. Above all, Dad wanted to be remembered as an educator. His over 1000 jobs in forty-four states and twenty-eight countries on five continents were the basis for the classes he taught at the University of Illinois for 35 years. He was always pleased to be answering questions from students both in and out of the classroom. His volumes of papers were written to continue the understanding of his various projects so others could take his findings and build on them. He was particularly pleased to have his papers placed at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute in the Ralph B. Peck Library next to the Karl Terzaghi Library so future generations could see how soil mechanics and foundations was born and grew and would be accessible to all who were interested in studying them. Dad would be honored to know that this conference was dedicated to him. His educational process is continued in the case histories presented here by many of his students and the students of his students. He would have been pleased

How Can Medicare Lead Delivery System Reform?

Explores options and design issues for reforming the fee-for-service payment system to encourage better, more efficient health care through greater accountability for specific populations and totality of care. Proposes a Medicare demonstration program

Basin Wildrye (\u3cem\u3eLeymus cinereus\u3c/em\u3e) Pooled Tetraploid Accessions for U.S. Intermountain West Rangeland Reclamation

Basin wildrye (Leymus cinereus [Scribn. & Merr.] Á. Löve) is an important perennial, hardy, long-lived, cool season C3 native grass of rangeland plant communities throughout much of western United States and Canada. All classes of livestock and wildlife, including large and small birds and mammals, utilise the grass year round for food and protection due to its 2-3 m tall, stiff stature which provides standing winter cover. Though occurring in precipitation areas of 150-500 mm and elevations of 600 to 3,000 m, it is usually found in deep, well-drained soils of high water holding capacity along drainage areas. Seedling vigour is only fair, and stands may take 2 to 5 years to fully establish. While tolerant of low to moderate levels (\u3c 10 mmhos/cm3) of saline and sodic soils and short-term winter or spring flooding, it does not tolerate extended periods of inundation (Ogle et al. 2012). It also does not tolerate heavy grazing or haying in the spring and summer due to its high growing point and minimal regrowth capability, and misuse has caused diminished population density through much of its original range (Anonymous, Utah Farmer-Stockman 1983). In response to losses of basin wildrye, due to wildfires and invasive species as well as historical overgrazing, it is desired to bolster the populations of basin wildrye in the Great Basin and other parts of the U.S. Intermountain area. However, the only seed supplies with reasonable commercial availability have been sourced from sites distant to this geographic area and establishment and survival has been inconsistent. These include the varieties Magnar, an octoploid (2n=56) originally collected in south-eastern British Columbia (released 1979) and Trailhead, a tetraploid (2n=28) originally collected in south-central Montana (re-leased 1991). Washoe germplasm (2002; tetraploid) was released for use on harsh mining sites in Montana, and the variety Continental (2009) an octoploid developed from the hybridisation of Magnar and Trailhead (Ogle et al. 2012)