A project to investigate mechanisms and methodologies for the design and construction of communicating concurrent processes in real-time environments

Research undertaken in 1979 into effective and appropriate mechanisms to aid in the design and construction of software for use in the flight research programs undertaken by NASA is presented

As Built design specification for CLASSY, an adaptive maximum likelihood clustering method

The latest modifications to the CLASSY system and the associate postprocessor MAXLABEL are described. Software and hardware descriptions, control card modifications, and sample executions are given

As-built design specification for equiprobability ellipses representation of CLASSY clusters

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

Contact stresses calculated for miniature slip rings

Using mathematical formulations to plot the graphs of the contact preload versus the Hertzian load, calculations of unit loading of the preloaded brushes on slip rings can be made. This optimizes the design of contact brushes and miniature slip rings

Influential Functionals

Learning about density functional approximations (DFAs), or approximations for the exchange-correlation functional, can be intimidating. Density Functional Theory is now one of the primary simulation tools for the practicing chemist or materials scientist, and its accuracy relies upon an appropriate choice of DFA. Over the past decades, there has been extensive research effort to find better DFAs, and there is now a large body of literature to read through for someone learning about DFAs for the first time. In this brief report, I share an analysis that suggests which functionals and publications have been the most influential, as a potential reading list to new scientists in this area. Here, "influential" is defined as "likely to have informed the design of another functional," and not simply a measure of number of citations, or how much that functional has been used for practical applications. This analysis is not claimed to be complete.Comment: For associated data see https://contribs.materialsproject.org/projects/influential_functional

Gendered Bodies and the U.S. Military: Exploring the Institutionalized Regulation of Bodies

This thesis supplements existing literature by examining the relationship between institutional regulations and gendered assumptions about bodies. This thesis draws from feminist social constructionist perspectives and gendered organizational theories to explore the role of gendered body assumptions in the organizational framework of a hypermasculine political institution. Using the U.S. military as an illustrative example, this thesis studies military policies and rationales historically, focusing on the post-Vietnam accelerated inclusion of women, the increasing use of combat as a divisive component, and the gendered structural elements that are used to determine physical competence. Findings coincide with existing literature and suggest that social meanings relating to gender are a prominent influence in U.S. military policy historically and contemporarily, even when biological reasons are cited as justification. This research provides implications for understanding institutional, strategic use of gender and provides analysis of how physical bodies and accompanying social meanings are impacted by institutional goals

Gendered Bodies and the U.S. Military: Exploring the Institutionalized Regulation of Bodies

This thesis supplements existing literature by examining the relationship between institutional regulations and gendered assumptions about bodies. This thesis draws from feminist social constructionist perspectives and gendered organizational theories to explore the role of gendered body assumptions in the organizational framework of a hypermasculine political institution. Using the U.S. military as an illustrative example, this thesis studies military policies and rationales historically, focusing on the post-Vietnam accelerated inclusion of women, the increasing use of combat as a divisive component, and the gendered structural elements that are used to determine physical competence. Findings coincide with existing literature and suggest that social meanings relating to gender are a prominent influence in U.S. military policy historically and contemporarily, even when biological reasons are cited as justification. This research provides implications for understanding institutional, strategic use of gender and provides analysis of how physical bodies and accompanying social meanings are impacted by institutional goals

The Pandemonium of Change: Endurance of the Carnivalesque Mode

The carnivalesque is a literary mode that takes the characteristics of medieval carnivals and brings them to literature. Academic study of the carnivalesque has thus far been relatively limited, leaving the researcher to explore a largely untapped field of literary analysis. The carnivalesque is most easily observable in the more celebrated mode of literature known as magical realism, which is a mode generally associated with Latin American authors, including several Nobel laureates. Magical realism deals with the insertion of traditional supernatural elements into otherwise natural worlds, which is the point where this mode intersects with the carnivalesque (though the two are not dependent on each other). This research seeks to prove the endurance of the carnivalesque mode—specifically that its effects outlast its actions—and will include an exploration of magical realism as well. The major text for this research is Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World, and the analysis will include a selection of magical realist novels. Through a careful retracing of carnival history, analysis of key carnivalesque elements, and close literary analysis, the researcher intends to study a facet of the carnivalesque mode previously overlooked by Bakhtin

Fall prevention in the community: what older people say they need

Original article can be found at: http://www.bjcn.co.uk/ Copyright MA HealthcareUptake of and adherence to fall prevention interventions is often poor and we know little about how older people’s perceptions of and beliefs about fall prevention interventions affect uptake. This study aimed to explore older people’s perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to participation in fall prevention interventions. We undertook a qualitative study with older people who had taken part in, declined to participate or adhere to fall prevention interventions using semi-structured interviews (n=65), and 17 focus groups (n=122) with older people (including 32 South Asian and 30 Chinese older people) in primary and community care settings in the South of England. A number of factors acted as either barriers or facilitators to uptake of interventions. Older people also made recommendations for improving access to interventions. Community nurses are ideally placed to screen older people, identify those at risk of falling and refer them to appropriate interventions as well as providing health promotion and education.Peer reviewe