Developing Relationships with the Cuban Military, in the Context of a Changing Cuba

Part of the JGI/LACC/ARC/U.S. Southern Command Policy Roundtable Series, this commissioned paper discusses how the initial steps toward normalizing relations with Cuba opens both opportunities and challenges for agencies of the U.S. government, including the military, as the nation moves toward more normal relations.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/jgi_research/1033/thumbnail.jp

Tobacco Valley, MT Resident Attitudes: Exploring Tourism Development Potential

This report provides a profile of resident attitudes toward tourism in Tobacco Valley, Montana in the fall of 2002, and summarizes the results of a statewide survey administered in conjunction with the 2002 Community Tourism Assessment Process (CTAP)

Exploring Tourism Development: Resident Attitudes in Custer County, Montana

Results from a Resident Attitude survey conducted in Custer County, Montana. Residents were surveyed to determine opinions toward tourism development in their community/county. The results are compared to a sample of statewide attitudes toward tourism. Includes current nonresident visitor profiles

Exploring Tourism Development: Resident Attitudes in Montana: 2001

Results from a Resident Attitude survey conducted in Montana. Residents were surveyed to determine opinions toward tourism development in their community/county and in Montana

An Economic Impact Assessment of the American Bowling Congress Tournament in Billings, 2002

Findings discussed in this report include geographic residences of participants, group size and average length of stay, type of accommodations used, mode of transportation used in travel to Billings, parts of Montana visited outside Billings and participants\u27 spending patterns. It also provides an account of the ABC Tournament\u27s economic impact on Yellowstone County and an assessment of the impact on areas beyond the host city

Understanding the Success or Failure of Organizational ICT Integration: The Criticality of Managerial Involvement

Translator disclaimer Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Get access ABSTRACT This study explores how managerial involvement affects the success or failure of ICT-based change. Employees’ use and non-use of new ICT were indicators for change success and failure, respectively. Based on the thematic analysis, the findings accentuate the criticality of adequate managerial involvement with affected employees during ICT-based organizational change. This proved vital for the successful integration of new ICT and the development of new work processes and practices. The combination of absence of managerial involvement and expert control prevented employees who did not have previous ICT experience from developing new work practices that integrated tasks, work processes and the new technology. ICT experts were authorized to control the change process by a combination of managerial involvement and delegated managerial authority. Closeness to the technology and to managers/decision-makers combined with high levels of mutual involvement and ICT experience seem to be important factors for the success of ICT-based organizational changeUnderstanding the Success or Failure of Organizational ICT Integration: The Criticality of Managerial InvolvementacceptedVersio

Exploring Tourism Development Potential: Resident Attitudes in Montana

This report provides a profile of resident attitudes toward tourism in Montana in the fall of 2001, and summarizes the results of a statewide survey administered in conjunction with the 2001-2002 Community Tourism Assessment Process (CTAP)

Forecasting of Photovoltaic Power Production

Solar irradiance and temperature are some weather parameters that affect the amount of power photovoltaic cells can generate. Based on these and past power production, future production can be predicted. Knowing" future generation may help the integration of this renewable energy source on an even larger scale than today, as well as optimize the use of them today. In this thesis, forecasting of future power generation was made by an artificial neural network (ANN) model, a support vector regression (SVR) model, an auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, a quantile regression neural network (QRNN) model, an ensemble model of ANN and SVR, an ANN ensemble model and an ANN model using only numerical weather predictions (NWPs) as inputs. Correlation techniques and principal component analysis were used for feature reduction for all models. The research questions for this thesis are, "How will the models perform using random train data to predict August 2021, compared to a random test sample? Will the ensemble models perform better than the standalone models, and will the quantile regression neural network make accurate prediction intervals? How well will the predictions be if the ANN model only uses NWP data as inputs, compared to both historical power and NWPs?". As well as to answer these questions, the objective of this thesis is to provide a model or multiple models that can accurately predict future power production for the PV power system in Lillesand. All models can predict future power production, but some with less accuracy than others. Of all models, as expected, both ensemble models performed best overall for both tests. The SVR model did however perform with the lowest MAE for the August test. For different fits, these results will probably slightly change, but it is expected that the ensemble models will still perform best overall

CTAP Evaluation Report: An Evaluation of the Community Tourism Assessment Program

This study evaluates the usefulness of the Community Tourism Assessment Process (CTAP) in Montana