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Force and cavitation characteristics of the NACA 4412 hydrofoil
This report covers Water Tunnel measurements of the infinite aspect ratio characteristics and cavitation characteristics of a hydrofoil section. The profile tested is identical to the 4412 airfoil section of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and is called the NACA 4412 hydrofoil in this report. Measurements and observations include lift, drag, and pitching moment and the inception and development of cavitation as functions of the angle of attack, velocity, and pressure of the flow. The purpose of this report is to present these measurements of the characteristics of this section in water, to compare the results with other available information on this shape, and to evaluate the Water Tunnel method for obtaining the complte hydrodynamic characteristics of hydrofoils
Voluntary Approaches to Transitioning from Competitive Fisheries to Rights-Based Management: Bringing the Field into the Lab
This paper describes a novel experiment designed to examine how rent dissipation may occur in fisheries in which the right to participate in the fishery is limited and fishermen compete amongst themselves for shares of an exogenous total allowable catch. We demonstrate that rent dissipation may occur through multiple mechanisms, and that the heterogeneity of fishermen has important implications for how rent dissipation occurs and the extent to which different individuals may benefit from the implementation of rights-based management. We apply this approach to investigate the concept of voluntary rights-based management under which managers divide the total allowable catch between two separate fisheries, and fishermen may choose between fishing for a guaranteed individual harvest quota or competing for a share of the total catch in a competitive fishery.
Voluntary Approaches to Transitioning from Competitive Fisheries to Rights-Based Management: Bringing the Field into the Lab
This paper describes a novel experiment designed to examine how rent dissipation may occur in fisheries in which the right to participate is limited and fishermen compete amongst themselves for shares of an exogenous total allowable catch. We demonstrate that rent dissipation may occur through multiple mechanisms, and that the heterogeneity of fishermen has important implications for how rent dissipation occurs and the extent to which different individuals may benefit from the implementation of rights-based management. We apply this approach to investigate the concept of voluntary rights-based management under which managers divide the total allowable catch between two separate fisheries, and fishermen may choose between fishing for a guaranteed individual harvest quota and competing for a share of the total catch in a competitive fishery.experimental economics, fisheries, rights-based management, IHQ, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Rethinking the Literary Baroque
John Donne and Baroque Allegory by Hugh Grady. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Hardcover $105.00
Closing the Contextual and Chronological Gap: A Design and Development Study of a Systematic Tool for the Selection of Learning and Performance Support Interventions
Gaps in human performance resulting from a lack of skills and knowledge require solutions – interventions. The process of selecting the most effective intervention (solution) for closing a skills and knowledge gap—such as classroom training, e-Learning, Structured on-the-job Training (SOJT), or job-aid—is a fundamental and vital practice for Human Performance Technology (HPT) practitioners. Unlike other activities in the Performance Improvement/HPT (PI/HPT) model, the activity of intervention selection is ambiguous. Meaning, there is currently no systematic process or tool in place for selecting learning and performance-improvement solutions that is reflective of the learning science. Consequently, the critical activity of intervention selection is often more art than science, especially in contrast to other phases of the PI/HPT model.
HPT is, first and foremost, a technology. HPT practitioners apply scientific and organized knowledge to practical ends using rigorous inquiry to provide initial evidence of possible interventions for performance gaps (Stolovitch, 2015). The results-driven approach of HPT empowers performance-improvement practitioners to select and design interventions that are beyond the scope of traditional classroom training. The ambiguity of the intervention selection process presents a persistent challenge for HPT practitioners when selecting between learning and performance-support solutions as well as determining specific modalities for delivery.
The United States Coast Guard have been exemplar practitioners of HPT for over two decades, but the need for a systematic intervention selection methodology persisted. To address the need for a new process, a systematic decision-aid tool was developed called the Learning Intervention Type and Modality (LITAM) tool. The tool was designed to integrate seminal literature and research in the learning science field relative to train-to-memory decisions, and modalities of instruction. The LITAM tool was put through rigorous field-testing and evaluations, which validated that these new methods for generating performance intervention recommendations were both accurate and effectual. This paper shares the factors and implications for systematizing the intervention selection process for closing human performance gaps
A Night Out with the Nerds
Simon Singh and Richard Wiseman draw on examples from physics to psychology, to explore the extraordinary in the ordinary in their innovative new play Theatre of Scienc
An Institutional Framework for Heterogeneous Formal Development in UML
We present a framework for formal software development with UML. In contrast
to previous approaches that equip UML with a formal semantics, we follow an
institution based heterogeneous approach. This can express suitable formal
semantics of the different UML diagram types directly, without the need to map
everything to one specific formalism (let it be first-order logic or graph
grammars). We show how different aspects of the formal development process can
be coherently formalised, ranging from requirements over design and Hoare-style
conditions on code to the implementation itself. The framework can be used to
verify consistency of different UML diagrams both horizontally (e.g.,
consistency among various requirements) as well as vertically (e.g.,
correctness of design or implementation w.r.t. the requirements)
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