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Kinds of Shooting Terms modified by Shooting Selected AbstractsAccidental Shooting: An AnalysisJOURNAL OF CONTINGENCIES AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2000Michael T. Charles Despite efforts at managing crises, they tenaciously occur at the most inopportune times. The crisis manager understands that the risk of a catastrophic failure never equals zero when the human species interacts with nature or man-made structures and processes. However, the role of responsible managers is to limit risk or at least to make a best effort in assuring that acceptable precautions are taken to reduce risk to an acceptable level. In this case study, the author discusses the elements of risk taking and the causes of error in a police firearms training environment. Also discussed are the goals of firearms training, and the impact of that training design on the firearms training environment which is put into perspective. The author looks at the mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery stages of crisis management as they relate to police firearms training. The author discusses precautions and how those precautions were violated in an established environment of safety, resulting in the accidental shooting in the gun-cleaning area. Also included are alternative safety measures designed to further negate the possibility of a recurrence of such an accident. [source] Shooting Through Clothing in Firearm SuicidesJOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, Issue 3 2010Petr Hejna M.D., Ph.D. Abstract:, There is a longstanding empirical rule that people who commit suicide rarely shoot through their clothing, but rather put it aside to expose the nude skin. Signs of shots through clothing have always been considered suspicious, raising presumptions of the presence of an abettor. Our report, based on a retrospective study of fatal suicidal firearm injuries from the years 1980 to 2007, points out that suicide victims only rarely remove clothing from the site of the future entry wound. The report covered 43 cases with fatal gunshot wounds in the area of the thorax, with only four persons (9%) removing the clothing present in the area of the subsequent self-inflicted wound. Defects present on the clothing of a victim cannot, therefore, be understood as an absolute criterion for disproving the possibility of suicide, and nor do they necessarily indicate an unfortunate accident or homicide. If, however, the suicide victim removes the clothing from the area of the future wound, then this is almost always an indication of suicide. [source] Shooting the messenger: log frame abuse and the need for a better planning environmental,a commentPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2001Michael Hubbard No abstract is available for this article. [source] Clinical investigation in ACS and PCI: Shooting in the dark at a moving target,CATHETERIZATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS, Issue 2 2009FSCAI, George Dangas MD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Dress-Related Responses to the Columbine Shootings: Other-Imposed and Self-DesignedFAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 2 2002Jennifer Paff Ogle In 1999, two students at Columbine High School (CHS) used gunfire to claim their lives and those of 13 others. Media writers devoted considerable attention to this crime, drawing linkages between the shootings and dress. The purpose of this study was to explore this media dialogue, particularly the dress-related responses proposed and/or adopted in reaction to the shootings, who advanced/opposed these responses, and why. Theories of identity, social power, and symbolic interaction guided the authors' work. An inductive content analysis approach was used to examine dress-related text published in The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News concerning the shootings. Analyses revealed two major dress-related responses: (a) other-imposed regulation aimed at protecting students and deterring them from expressing hatred against others and (b) self-designed/selected creative acts of resistance for grieving, memorializing, and unifying. Arguments in support of and against these responses are discussed, and theoretical implications are considered. [source] Fatal Shootings, Questionable TacticsPERSPECTIVES IN PSYCHIATRIC CARE, Issue 2 2000Mary Paquette PhD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Schoolyard Shootings: Racism, Sexism, and Moral Panics over Teen ViolenceANTIPODE, Issue 4 2001Stuart C Aitken First page of article [source] Application of Visual Analytics for Thermal State Management in Large Data CentresCOMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, Issue 6 2010M. C. Hao I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation,Display Algorithms; H.5.0 [Information Systems]: Information Interfaces and Presentation,General Abstract Today's large data centres are the computational hubs of the next generation of IT services. With the advent of dynamic smart cooling and rack level sensing, the need for visual data exploration is growing. If administrators know the rack level thermal state changes and catch problems in real time, energy consumption can be greatly reduced. In this paper, we apply a cell-based spatio-temporal overall view with high-resolution time series to simultaneously analyze complex thermal state changes over time across hundreds of racks. We employ cell-based visualization techniques for trouble shooting and abnormal state detection. These techniques are based on the detection of sensor temperature relations and events to help identify the root causes of problems. In order to optimize the data centre cooling system performance, we derive new non-overlapped scatter plots to visualize the correlations between the temperatures and chiller utilization. All these techniques have been used successfully to monitor various time-critical thermal states in real-world large-scale production data centres and to derive cooling policies. We are starting to embed these visualization techniques into a handheld device to add mobile monitoring capability. [source] Pose Controlled Physically Based MotionCOMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, Issue 4 2006Raanan Fattal Abstract In this paper we describe a new method for generating and controlling physically-based motion of complex articulated characters. Our goal is to create motion from scratch, where the animator provides a small amount of input and gets in return a highly detailed and physically plausible motion. Our method relieves the animator from the burden of enforcing physical plausibility, but at the same time provides full control over the internal DOFs of the articulated character via a familiar interface. Control over the global DOFs is also provided by supporting kinematic constraints. Unconstrained portions of the motion are generated in real time, since the character is driven by joint torques generated by simple feedback controllers. Although kinematic constraints are satisfied using an iterative search (shooting), this process is typically inexpensive, since it only adjusts a few DOFs at a few time instances. The low expense of the optimization, combined with the ability to generate unconstrained motions in real time yields an efficient and practical tool, which is particularly attractive for high inertia motions with a relatively small number of kinematic constraints. [source] INJUSTICE AND IRRATIONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY YOUTH POLICYCRIMINOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY, Issue 4 2004DONNA M. BISHOP Lionel Tate was 12 years old when he killed 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick. Tiffany had been staying at the Tate home and, by all accounts, got along well with Lionel. The two were playing at "wrestling" when Lionel decided to try out some moves that he had seen on television. He threw Tiffany across the room, inflicting fatal injuries. Despite the boy's tender age, the prosecutor transferred Lionel to criminal court on a charge of first-degree murder, an offense carrying a mandatory penalty of life without parole. The boy was given an opportunity to plead guilty to second-degree murder in return for a sentence of three years incarceration, but he rejected the offer. A jury subsequently convicted him of first-degree murder. At sentencing, the prosecution recommended leniency, which drew an angry response from the judge: If the state believed the boy did not deserve to be sent to prison for life, why hadn't it charged him with a lesser offense? Without any inquiry into the boy's cognitive, emotional, or moral maturity, the judge imposed the mandatory sentence.1 Raymond Gardner was 16 years old when he shot and killed 20-year-old Mack Robinson.2 Raymond lived in a violent urban neighborhood with his mother, who kept close watch over him. He had no prior record. He was an A student and worked part-time in a clothing store to earn money for college. On the day of the shooting, a friend came into the store to tell Raymond that Mack had a beef with him about talking to a girl, and was "looking to get him." The victim was known on the street as "Mack the Knife" because he always carried a small machete and was believed to have stabbed several people. To protect himself on the way home, Raymond took the gun kept under the counter of the shop where he worked. As he neared home, Mack and two other men approached and blocked his path. According to eyewitness testimony, Raymond began shaking, then pulled out the gun and fired. Mack ran into the street and fell. Raymond followed and fired five more shots into the victim's back as he lay dying on the ground. Raymond did not run. He just stood there crying. The prosecutor filed a motion in juvenile court to transfer Raymond on a charge of first-degree murder. The judge ordered a psychological evaluation, which addressed the boy's family and social background, medical and behavioral history, intelligence, maturity, potential for future violence and prospects for treatment. The judge subsequently denied the transfer motion. He found Raymond delinquent and committed him to a private psychiatric treatment facility.3 [source] THE CO-PRODUCTION OF NARRATIVE IN AN ENTREPRENEURIAL CITY: AN ANALYSIS OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, IN TURMOILGEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2009Jamie Gillen ABSTRACT. In April 2001 Cincinnati, Ohio, erupted into violence and protracted unrest after the police shooting of an unarmed African-American named Timothy Thomas. African-American interest groups in the city subsequently organized an economic boycott of downtown businesses. In response to the demonstration and the boycott, the Cincinnati government issued a marketing campaign entitled ,We're On the Move!', intending to give nod to past failures and launch forward movement on their part. In this article I investigate the entirety of these events as narrative moments under the auspices of urban entrepreneurialism to answer the question: How does the local population inform, rather than simply mediate, the narrative administration of an urban entrepreneurial form of governance? I then turn to a response to the campaign by an African-American newspaper columnist in Cincinnati to underscore a dialogic relationship between an entrepreneurial city and its citizens as it forms the presentation of entrepreneurialism. In turn, this conception allows for a more nuanced version of entrepreneurial governance more generally. [source] Dual diversity combining and decision feedback equalizer in indoor millimetre-wave channelINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 8 2002Chien-Ching Chiu Abstract Wideband communication characteristics of wireless indoor millimetre-wave channel for arched and rectangular buildings are investigated. The impulse responses of arched and rectangular buildings for any transmitter,receiver location are computed by shooting and bouncing ray/image (SBR/Image) techniques. By using the impulse responses of these multipath channels, the impact of shapes of building is presented and the bit error rate performance of binary phase shift keying (BPSK) system with phase and timing recovery circuits are also calculated. Moreover, dual space antenna diversity technique and decision feedback equalizer (DFE) with four forward and three feedback taps are used to combat the multipath fading. Numerical results show that the mean root mean square (rms) delay spread for the arched building is smaller than that for the rectangular building. In addition, it is also found that the transmission rate can be up to 20 Mbps for indoor millimetre-wave channel of these two buildings by using dual space diversity and DFE. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Fast implementations and rigorous models: Can both be accommodated in NMPC?INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL, Issue 8 2008Victor M. Zavala Abstract In less than two decades, nonlinear model predictive control has evolved from a conceptual framework to an attractive, general approach for the control of constrained nonlinear processes. These advances were realized both through better understanding of stability and robustness properties as well as improved algorithms for dynamic optimization. This study focuses on recent advances in optimization formulations and algorithms, particularly for the simultaneous collocation-based approach. Here, we contrast this approach with competing approaches for online application and discuss further advances to deal with applications of increasing size and complexity. To address these challenges, we adapt the real-time iteration concept, developed in the context of multiple shooting (Real-Time PDE-Constrained Optimization. SIAM: Philadelphia, PA, 2007; 25,52, 3,24), to a collocation-based approach with a full-space nonlinear programming solver. We show that straightforward sensitivity calculations from the Karush,Kuhn,Tucker system also lead to a real-time iteration strategy, with both direct and shifted variants. This approach is demonstrated on a large-scale polymer process, where online calculation effort is reduced by over two orders of magnitude. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Does supplementary feeding reduce predation of red grouse by hen harriers?JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, Issue 6 2001Stephen M. Redpath Summary 1Hen harriers Circus cyaneus can reduce the numbers of red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus available for shooting. We conducted a supplementary feeding experiment on Langholm Moor, UK, in 1998 and 1999 to determine whether feeding hen harriers could reduce the numbers of red grouse killed. The experiment was done at two distinct stages of the breeding cycle: prior to incubation (spring experiment) and after hatching (summer experiment). In spring, Langholm Moor was divided into two areas, one with food and one without. In summer a number of birds were provided with food in both areas. 2Providing harriers with food in spring had no significant effect on the breeding density of males or females, although feeding was associated with an increase in density on one area in one year. In addition, over the 2 years of the experiment, there was no evidence that feeding led to more chicks returning to breed in subsequent years. Fed harriers had larger clutches but did not lay earlier than unfed birds. 3A minimum of 78% of the radio-tagged grouse that were killed during spring were killed by raptors. The mortality rates of adult grouse did not differ between the two areas or between the two years despite the availability of supplementary food and the large differences in harrier breeding density between areas. We infer that other raptors were responsible for much of the predation of adult grouse. 4During the nestling period, female harriers took supplementary food at a higher rate than males. Females that were fed during the spring took more supplementary food in summer than those fed only during summer. Fed birds did not deliver more food overall to nests than those not provided with food. 5Both male and female harriers at nests where supplementary food was available caught grouse chicks at a lower rate than harriers at nests not provided with food. For both years combined, fed harriers delivered on average 0·5 grouse chicks to their nests per 100 h, compared with 3·7 grouse chicks delivered to nests without supplementary food. 6We estimated that feeding all harriers at Langholm would cost approximately £11 000 per annum. In both 1998 and 1999, the numbers of grouse chicks lost were 10 times higher than expected from harrier predation rates. Some other, unknown, factor had a strong influence on grouse chick survival in these years. Feeding some of the breeding harriers did not lead to an increase in grouse density at Langholm. 7The results suggest that supplementary feeding may provide a useful tool in reducing the number of grouse chicks taken by harriers. Further experiments are now necessary to see under what conditions this reduced predation will lead to increases in grouse density. [source] Access Platform Techniques for Transcatheter Aortic Valve ReplacementJOURNAL OF CARDIAC SURGERY, Issue 4 2010Jacques Kpodonu M.D. Aim of study: A large number of the high-risk patients with critical aortic stenosis referred for transcatheter valve implantation approach may not be candidates for the femoral approach due to peripheral vascular disease with the morbidity and mortality increased severalfold in patients who develop access related complications. Method & Results: A thorough knowledge and review of various alternate access site techniques and trouble shooting are therefore important and required by the implanting cardiac surgeons involved in transcatheter aortic valve therapy. Conclusion: The article review highlights the various percutaneous, hybrid, and surgical access techniques platforms available as well as options for implantation of these devices. (J Card Surg 2010;25:373-380) [source] Cross-sectional study of violence in emerging adulthoodAGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, Issue 2 2009Robert F. MarcusArticle first published online: 9 DEC 200 Abstract Theories of emerging adulthood, the evolutionary perspective, and the presence of turning points in the lives of 19,25-year olds were examined in relation to serious perpetrated violence for a cross-sectional sample of men and women (n=14,098) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), Wave III. Perpetrated, self-reported violence included armed robbery, gang fighting, using a weapon in a fight, pulling a knife or gun on someone, or shooting or stabbing someone. Results showed that 11.3% of emergent adults had perpetrated at least one of these behaviors in the past year. Hierarchical logistic regression analysis partially supported the three theories for both men and women, beyond the contribution of violence in adolescence. The presence of Wave III violence was more likely given the unique contributions of unmarried status and economic risk. Moreover, and consistent with the theory of emerging adulthood, both sensation seeking and depression declined with age and contributed to the acknowledgement of Wave III violence, beyond the contribution of controls for Wave I violence (6 years earlier), demographics, age, gender, unmarried status, and economic risk. Findings of age-related declines and gender differences in prevalence rates were consistent with previous research on nationally representative samples, and with the predictions of the three theories. Aggr. Behav. 35:188,202, 2009. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Accidental Shooting: An AnalysisJOURNAL OF CONTINGENCIES AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2000Michael T. Charles Despite efforts at managing crises, they tenaciously occur at the most inopportune times. The crisis manager understands that the risk of a catastrophic failure never equals zero when the human species interacts with nature or man-made structures and processes. However, the role of responsible managers is to limit risk or at least to make a best effort in assuring that acceptable precautions are taken to reduce risk to an acceptable level. In this case study, the author discusses the elements of risk taking and the causes of error in a police firearms training environment. Also discussed are the goals of firearms training, and the impact of that training design on the firearms training environment which is put into perspective. The author looks at the mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery stages of crisis management as they relate to police firearms training. The author discusses precautions and how those precautions were violated in an established environment of safety, resulting in the accidental shooting in the gun-cleaning area. Also included are alternative safety measures designed to further negate the possibility of a recurrence of such an accident. [source] Proper Assessment of the JFK Assassination Bullet Lead Evidence from Metallurgical and Statistical PerspectivesJOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, Issue 4 2006Erik Randich Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The bullet evidence in the JFK assassination investigation was reexamined from metallurgical and statistical standpoints. The questioned specimens are comprised of soft lead, possibly from full-metal-jacketed Mannlicher-Carcano (MC), 6.5-mm ammunition. During lead refining, contaminant elements are removed to specified levels for a desired alloy or composition. Microsegregation of trace and minor elements during lead casting and processing can account for the experimental variabilities measured in various evidentiary and comparison samples by laboratory analysts. Thus, elevated concentrations of antimony and copper at crystallographic grain boundaries, the widely varying sizes of grains in MC bullet lead, and the 5,60 mg bullet samples analyzed for assassination intelligence effectively resulted in operational sampling error for the analyses. This deficiency was not considered in the original data interpretation and resulted in an invalid conclusion in favor of the single-bullet theory of the assassination. Alternate statistical calculations, based on the historic analytical data, incorporating weighted averaging and propagation of experimental uncertainties also considerably weaken support for the single-bullet theory. In effect, this assessment of the material composition of the lead specimens from the assassination concludes that the extant evidence is consistent with any number between two and five rounds fired in Dealey Plaza during the shooting. [source] Anxiety sensitivity and posttrauma stress symptoms in female undergraduates following a campus shooting,JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS, Issue 6 2009Katherine L. Stephenson Participants were recruited from female undergraduate students participating in an ongoing longitudinal study at the time of a campus shooting. Eighty-five percent (N = 691) of the 812 students who were invited to participate in the current study completed questionnaires an average of 27 days following a campus shooting. In a mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal design, the cognitive and the physical concerns dimensions of postshooting anxiety sensitivity accounted for unique variance in posttrauma stress symptom severity (cross-sectional), after controlling for preshooting psychological symptoms (longitudinal). The cognitive concerns dimension showed the strongest relationship. Anxiety sensitivity also appeared to moderate the relationships of hyperarousal symptoms with reexperiencing and numbing symptoms. [source] Distribution of mountain hares Lepus timidus in Scotland: results from a questionnaireMAMMAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2010Vikki PATTON ABSTRACT A questionnaire survey of land owners, managers and gamekeepers was conducted in order to assess the distribution of mountain hares in Scotland, assess their current management, collate numbers harvested in 2006,07 and estimate distribution change by comparing with similar data collected in 1995,96. The land area covered by returned questionnaires was 71098km2 (90% of Scotland). Mountain hares were reported as present on 34359km2 (48%) and absent from 36739km2 (52%). Mountain hare presence was strongly associated with heather moorland managed for red grouse shooting. Moorland managed for driven grouse shooting had the highest percentage area of mountain hare presence (median 64%) followed by moorland managed for walked-up grouse shooting (median 9%) and moorland with no grouse shooting (median 0%). Approximately 25000 mountain hares were harvested in 2006,07. Based on the estimated UK population in 1995 of 350000 (range ±50%), this represents around 7% of the population (range 5,14%). Reasons given by respondents for harvesting hares were tick control (50%), sport (40%) and forestry or crop protection (10%). Comparison of the estates surveyed in both 2006,07 and 1995,96 (a total area of 20462km2) indicated no net gain or loss in hare distribution. Furthermore, there was no evidence that levels of harvest had reduced the range of mountain hares in this area. It is not possible to comment on any distribution change outside this area (58737km2). Similarly, as no data were collected on abundance, it is not possible to draw conclusions on changes in density. Regular monitoring of mountain hare distribution within Scotland is required to identify any distribution changes. Measures of abundance throughout the range are necessary to estimate the population size, investigate the relationship between harvest intensity and changes in abundance and further assess the conservation status of this UK Biodiversity Action Plan species. [source] Efficiency in the National Basketball Association: a stochastic frontier approach with panel dataMANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2006Richard A. Hofler We investigate how closely NBA teams play up to their potential. We find that shooting, rebounding, stealing the ball and blocking shots raise the number of potential wins while turnovers lower it. We also learn that better coaching and defensive prowess raise a team's win efficiency. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] First (mediation) step: Stop the shootingALTERNATIVES TO THE HIGH COST OF LITIGATION, Issue 2 2009Harry N. Mazadoorian Violent Chicago streets are as tough a test for mediators as there is. Harry N. Mazadoorian, of Hamden, Conn., draws lessons for commercial ADR from the work of street mediators. [source] Simulations of strong gravitational lensing with substructureMONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, Issue 4 2006Adam Amara ABSTRACT Galactic-sized gravitational lenses are simulated by combining a cosmological N -body simulation and models for the baryonic component of the galaxy. The lens caustics, critical curves, image locations and magnification ratios are calculated by ray shooting on an adaptive grid. When the source is near a cusp in a smooth lens' caustic, the sum of the magnifications of the three closest images should be close to zero. It is found that in the observed cases this sum is generally too large to be consistent with the simulations, implying that there is not enough substructure in the simulations. This suggests that other factors play an important role. These may include limited numerical resolution, lensing by structure outside the halo, selection bias and the possibility that a randomly selected galaxy halo may be more irregular, for example, due to recent mergers, than the isolated halo used in this study. It is also shown that, with the level of substructure computed from the N -body simulations, the image magnifications of the Einstein cross-type lenses are very weak functions of source size up to 1 kpc. This is also true for the magnification ratios of widely separated images in the fold and cusp,caustic lenses. This means that selected magnification ratios for the different emission regions of a lensed quasar should agree with each other, barring microlensing by stars. The source size dependence of the magnification ratio between the closest pair of images is more sensitive to substructure. [source] Introduction to the programming of deep brain stimulatorsMOVEMENT DISORDERS, Issue S3 2002Jens Volkmann MD Abstract The clinical success of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treating Parkinson's disease, tremor, or dystonia critically depends on the quality of postoperative neurologic management. Movement disorder specialists becoming involved with this therapy need to acquire new skills to optimally adapt stimulation parameters and medication after implantation of a DBS system. In clinical practice, the infinite number of possible parameter settings in DBS can be reduced to few relevant combinations. In this article, the authors describe a general scheme of selecting stimulation parameters in DBS and provide clinical and neurophysiological arguments for such a standardized algorithm. They also describe noninvasive technical trouble shooting by using programming features of the commercially available neurostimulation devices. © 2002 Movement Disorder Society [source] Evolution of Brain Impedance in Dystonic Patients Treated by GPi Electrical StimulationNEUROMODULATION, Issue 2 2004Simone Hemm BME. Abstract Deep Brain Stimulation is an effective treatment of generalized dystonia. Optimal stimulation parameters vary between patients. This article investigates the influence of electrical brain impedance and delivered current on the brain response to stimulation. Twenty-four patients were bilaterally stimulated in the globus pallidus internus through two implanted four-contact electrodes. The variation of brain impedance and current measurements was correlated with stimulation parameters, time course, and clinical outcome. When a contact was activated, a statistically significant and reversible decrease of brain impedance was found. Impedance and current values and their variations with time significantly differed between patients. The absolute impedance did not significantly correlate with the final outcome. We conclude that the reversible decrease of impedance reflects an adaptive long-term mechanism, which could be due to a plasticity phenomenon, but has no prognostic value. Impedance and current measurements give new complementary information for parameter adjustment and trouble shooting and should therefore be included in all patients' follow-up. [source] Technology use in campus crisisNEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 124 2008Jeanna Mastrodicasa College students are connecting with peers and college administrators in different ways in times of crisis. Lessons learned from the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the mass shooting at Virginia Tech have shifted the methods of response in the event of campus crisis to newer technologies. [source] Talking Heads: Capturing Dayak Deathways on FilmAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2001Anne Schiller In 1996, an elite group of Ngaju Dayak religious activists invited National Geographic Television to film their rites of secondary treatment of the dead in the village ofPetak Putih, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. In this article; I explore activists' efforts to engage the National Geographic Society and their attempts to exert a high degree of control over the manner in which local traditions were portrayed to the filmmakers. I focus in particular on how representations of specific local practices figure in the recasting of a contemporary Dayak face, and on questions concerning religious authenticity and authority. I argue that the activists' interest in making a film, and their decisions during its shooting were part of their larger organizational strategies, with potentially far-reaching political and economic consequences. [Indonesia, Dayaks, religion, identity, tourism, filmmaking] [source] Using switching detection and variational equations for the shooting methodOPTIMAL CONTROL APPLICATIONS AND METHODS, Issue 2 2007Pierre Martinon Abstract We study in this paper the resolution by single shooting of an optimal control problem with a bang-bang control involving a large number of commutations. We focus on the handling of these commutations regarding the precise computation of the shooting function and its Jacobian. We first observe the impact of a switching detection algorithm on the shooting method results. Then, we study the computation of the Jacobian of the shooting function, by comparing classical finite differences to a formulation using the variational equations. We consider as an application a low thrust orbital transfer with payload maximization. This kind of problem presents a discontinuous optimal control, and involves up to 1800 commutations for the lowest thrust. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Temperature dependence of carrier traps in high sensitivity HARP photoconductive filmPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue S1 2009Yuji Ohkawa Abstract Amorphous selenium (a-Se) avalanche multiplication photoconductive film, what we call HARP (high-gain avalanche rushing amorphous photoconductor) photoconductive film, has been investigated for the purpose of reporting breaking news at night and producing nature and science programs. The purpose of our work is to develop more sensitive HARP films with high reliability. 15-,m-thick HARP film with an avalanche multiplication factor of about 200 that is thicker and more sensitive than the previous 8-,m-thick one has been studied. However, the thick film has a problem that defects easily occurred during shooting of intense spot lights. The defects are caused by trapped electrons which makes an enhanced internal electric field around the incident light side interface of the film. Defects are suppressed by operating the film at high temperatures, because the thermal energy releases the trapped electrons. This paper describes the relationship between the defect occurrence and the temperature dependence of carries trap in the film. To investigate it, the defect occurrence and dark current characteristics were measured. As a result, it was found that the number of released electrons exceeds that of trapped ones at temperatures over 28.5 °C and that defect occurrence is suppressed by operating the film at over 27.5 °C. (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Metrological sharp shooting for plasma proteins and peptides: The need for reference materials for accurate measurements in clinical proteomics and in vitro diagnostics to generate reliable resultsPROTEOMICS - CLINICAL APPLICATIONS, Issue 9 2007Frank Vitzthum Dr. Abstract Reliable study results are necessary for the assessment of discoveries, including those from proteomics. Reliable study results are also crucial to increase the likelihood of making a successful choice of biomarker candidates for verification and subsequent validation studies, a current bottleneck for the transition to in vitro diagnostic (IVD). In this respect, a major need for improvement in proteomics appears to be accuracy of measurements, including both trueness and precision of measurement. Standardization and total quality management systems (TQMS) help to provide accurate measurements and reliable results. Reference materials are an essential part of standardization and TQMS in IVD and are crucial to provide metrological correct measurements and for the overall quality assurance process. In this article we give an overview on how reference materials are defined, prepared and what role they play in standardization and TQMS to support the generation of reliable results. We discuss how proteomics can support the establishment of reference materials and biomarker tests for IVD applications, how current reference materials used in IVD may be beneficially applied in proteomics, and we provide considerations on the establishment of reference materials specific for proteomics. For clarity, we solely focus on reference materials related to serum and plasma. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||