Research and education in management of large- scale technical programs Semiannual progress report, 1 Jan. - 30 Jun. 1970

Development and implementation of programs related to urban simulation games and decision making exercises for action researc

Research and education in management of large- scale technical programs Semiannual progress report

Research and education in management of large scale technical programs - education and integration of interdisciplinary tea

Technology and management of large-scale programs Semiannual progress report

Technology and management of large scale program

Using cyber capabilities to inform and influence

As the world evolves and becomes more technical, the need for traditional messaging techniques diminishes. The need of the military to be able to dynamically target an individual or group with specific messages in order to inform or influence grows exponentially every year. This need also increases as the United States shifts its military focus from uneducated Third World countries to countries with established infrastructure and large cyber footprints. The military must be able to use the cyber domain to inform or influence a target audience to achieve a desired effect by disseminating a message, attributable or non-attributable, through use of the Web, e-mail or social media. The ability to understand the topology of the Internet is key to targeting a specific audience and to do this an understanding of geolocation is key. To target a specific audience with a message we must understand where they are located to understand culture, customs, and language. With cyberspace quickly becoming a dominant factor in the information environment, how can the military use the cyber domain to inform or influence a target audience to achieve a desired effect by disseminating a message, either attributable or non-attributable through the web, e-mail or social mediahttp://archive.org/details/usingcybercapabi1094527908Major, United States ArmyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Wood Creek Tidal Marsh Enhancement Project Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Report 2019

The focus of this report was to monitor benthic macroinvertebrate communities on the Freshwater Farms Reserve, which underwent two phases of restoration as part of the Wood Creek Tidal Marsh Enhancement Project in 2009-2010 and 2016-2018. Objectives for the restoration activities were to increase winter rearing refugia habitat for several threatened/endangered fish species such as the tidewater goby (Eucyclogobius newberryi), Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The goals of this project were to (1) sample and identify BMIs along a salinity gradient in Wood Creek; (2) assess water quality; and (3) report general trajectory of community composition over time. Results show that the abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates increased dramatically in Wood Creek in 2019 for all sampled sites when compared to previous years of monitoring data. Three taxa accounted for over 99% of the overall composition at each of the sample sites. Increased abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates may provide additional nutritional support for fish present in Wood Creek and Freshwater Creek. Overall, Freshwater Farms Reserve’s post-restoration ecological trajectory seems to be improving in relation to the goals of supporting fish refugia for threatened/endangered species

Research and education in management of large-scale technical programs

A research effort is reported which was conducted by NASA in conjunction with Drexel University, and which was aimed at an improved understanding of large scale systems technology and management

Rock Evaluation for Engineered Facilities

The need for comprehensive information on the characteristics and behavior of earth materials has been recognized for many years, perhaps for as long as significant construction has taken place in and on the surface of the earth. In recent years, however, the magnitude and complexity of engineered construction has greatly increased, resulting in a corresponding increase in the need for information on the engineering properties of soil and rock materials, Direct testing of soil and rock can be utilized to furnish necessary information. However, both field and laboratory testing can be extremely expensive, particularly where testing must include applications of stress to large masses of earth material, For this reason, significant technical and economic advantages can be realized through the development of indirect or short-cut methods for obtaining indications of the properties and characteristics of geologic materials. Some years ago the value of topographic maps, aerial photographs, pedologic descriptions, and geological surveys in characterizing soil materials was realized. To make this information useful for engineering studies, a serious effort was initiated to obtain data on the engineering properties of various soil groups and associations established on the basis of geological and pedological surveys. The correlation of performance data with information on areal distribution and location furnished by geologic and pedologic works has proven extremely valuable in the planning and construction of facilities in and on soil. In recent years, the size and importance of structures and facilities designed by engineers and architects has greatly increased. This has produced an increased interest in the rock materials underlying surficial soil layers. A clear need has arisen for a program to provide an engineering evaluation of rock materials for the purposes of location, design, construction, and maintenance of engineered facilities. However, a serious gap exists in the association of engineering characteristics with rock units identified on the basis of geological classifications, Therefore, there is a need for the development of a comprehensive evaluation program which permits utilization of existing data and which aids in the procurement of necessary information on engineering characteristics of rock

Engineering Data System for Bedrock Occurrences and Properties

The initial work plan included the development of a classification system based on index tests. An investigation of previous works in classification of rock on the basis of index tests showed that a variety of classification systems utilizing many different index tests had been developed. However, this survey showed that no generally applicable system had been developed and that little communication had been established between field investigators, facility designers, and those in charge of construction and maintenance of facilities. Therefore, the initial plan for work was modified to include the development of a comprehensive methodology for evaluation of rock. The development of such an evaluation schema was to include the establishment of an information bank to provide access to collected data by any interested individual. The first step in the development of this rock evaluation program was a survey of the categories of information that have been collected concerning geologic materials, particularly rock strata. On the basis of this investigation of existing data, a method was devised to collect, categorize, and present more extensive data on rock materials. The general schema for the evaluation program was then developed. At the present time, a research effort is continuing to test and verify the validity of the evaluation program which has been developed. A final step in this effort will be a full implementation of the rock evaluation program for project planning in Kentucky

Relevance judgments and the incremental presentation of document representations

A new approach to the solicitation and measurement of relevance judgments is presented, which attempts to resolve some of the difficulties inherent in the nature of relevance and human judgment, and which further seeks to examine how users' judgments of document representations change as more information about documents is revealed to them. Subjects (university faculty and doctoral students) viewed three incremental versions of documents, and recorded ratio-level relevance judgments for each version. These judgments were analyzed by a variety of methods, including graphical inspection and examination of the number and degree of changes of judgments as new information is seen. A post questionnaire was also administered to obtain subjects' perceptions of the process and the individual fields of information presented. A consistent pattern of perception and importance of these fields is seen: Abstracts are by far the most important field and have the greatest impact, followed by titles, bibliographic information, and indexing.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/29634/1/0000723.pd

16th Annual Environmental Law Institute

Materials from the 16th Annual Environmental Law Institute held by UK/CLE in May 2000