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Survey System (survey + system)

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Engineering	50%

Selected Abstracts

Cross-institutional assessment: Development and implementation of the On-line Student Survey System

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION, Issue 2 2002
Raymond Hoare
Abstract As ABET has increased the need for routine student assessments, engineering faculty are faced with the problem of doing this in an efficient manner that minimizes the time required to conduct, tabulate, and analyze the requisite surveys. To meet this need, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed the On-line Student Survey System (OS3) to facilitate EC 2000 assessment and cross-institutional benchmarking. OS3 allows multiple engineering schools to conduct customized, routine program evaluations using Web-based surveys specifically designed to meet EC 2000 objectives. Since its inception, seven engineering schools have adopted OS3. This article provides an overview of the system, a des-cription of its survey instruments, and an evaluation of the system. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 10: 88,97, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com.); DOI 10.1002/cae.10013 [source]

Web-based Health Survey Systems in Outcome Assessment and Management of Pain

PAIN MEDICINE, Issue 2007
Vinod K. Podichetty MD
ABSTRACT Pain is a complex phenomenon lacking a well-defined paradigm for diagnosis and management across medical disciplines. This is due in part to inconsistencies in the assessment of pain as well as in the measurement of related social and psychological states. Efforts to evaluate and measure pain through objective tests have been hindered by challenges such as methodological differences in data acquisition, and the lack of common, universally accepted information systems. Physicians and hospital administrators have expressed mixed reactions to the costs that inevitably accompany advances in medical technology. Nonetheless, computer systems are currently being developed for use in the quantitative assessment and management of pain, which can advance our understanding of the public health impact of pain, improve the care individual patients receive, and educate providers. The description of an interdisciplinary, integrated, health survey system illustrates the approach and highlights the advantages of using information technology in pain evaluation and management. [source]

Ground-penetrating radar and magnetic survey to the west of Al-Zayyan Temple, Kharga Oasis, Al-Wadi Al-Jadeed (New Valley), Egypt

ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, Issue 2 2002
Dr. Hiroyuki Kamei
Abstract Al-Zayyan Temple or Qasr Al-Zayyan might be regarded as one in a chain of several fortresses that the Romans built to secure the salver's trade caravan route between Asyut and Sudan, known as Darb Al-Arbain. Al-Zayyan temple lies about 25 km south of Al-Kharga city, the capital of the New Valley, and deviates to the east of Al-Kharga-Paris main road some 2 km along the Al-Zayyan-Aarif minor road. The background information about the temple is very scarce, and even what is known is neither clear nor accurate. Some indications have ascribed it to Amenebis and that it was restored during the reign of Emperor Antoninus (AD 138,161). An integrated ground-penetrating radar (GPR)survey using the SIR 2000 Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc. (GSSI) together with magnetic survey using FM36 (GeoScan) and the three component fluxgate gradiometer TRM-70D (Tokin) have been applied to the western side of the temple. The results show relatively large-scale buried structures in a direction intersecting that of the present temple at about 45°. Some particular features within the structure have been speculatively ascribed on the basis of comprehending their signatures in the GPR sections. The magnetic results have improved the identification of some objects revealed by the GPR and provided ideas about some of the other features. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

BEAM , Geoelectrical Ahead Monitoring for TBM-Drives

GEOMECHANICS AND TUNNELLING, Issue 5 2008
Arnim Kaus Dr. rer.nat.
BEAM is a non-intrusive focused-electrical induced polarisation ground prediction technique, permanently operating while TBM tunnelling. Main components of the survey system are the measuring unit placed in the TBM operator cabin and special adapted excavation tools which are used as electrodes. The unit is connected to the guidance system and receives the boring signal which allows fully automatic data acquisition and visualisation in real-time on an integrated monitor. Communication facilities transfer the forecast results to every accredited computer world wide simultaneously. Based on the measuring data the percentage frequency effect PFE and the resistivity R, an advanced evaluation software is established for geoelectrical-geological/hydrogeological classification and interpretation. Selected case studies from international TBM projects are outlined with prediction results of different kinds of exploration targets and geological situations. Since 2000 the geophysical probing system is fulfilling the practical demands under the rough and various conditions of TBM tunnelling work by indicating reliable results in hard rock as well as in soft ground. BEAM , Geoelektrische Vorauserkundung für TBM-Vortriebe BEAM ist eine zerstörungsfreie, vortriebsbegleitende Baugrund-Vorauserkundungs-Technologie auf Basis der fokussierend-elektrischen induzierten Polarisation. Das Monitoring-System besteht hauptsächlich aus einem Messgerät, das in der Steuerkabine aufgestellt werden kann, und aus speziell angepassten, bauseits vorhandenen Abbauwerkzeugen und Sicherungsmitteln, die als Elektroden dienen. Die Messeinheit wird mit dem bestehenden Vermessungssystem verbunden und empfängt das Bohrsignal, sodass vollautomatisierte Messungen durchgeführt werden, ohne die Tunnelvortriebsarbeiten zu stören, bei gleichzeitiger Datenauswertung und Visualisierung der Ergebnisse in Echtzeit auf dem integrierten Bildschirm der Einheit. Durch Anschluss an die Kommunikationseinrichtungen der Baustelle lassen sich die Vorauserkundungsdaten zeitgleich an jeden akkreditierten Computer weltweit transferieren. Eine innovative Auswertesoftware bewerkstelligt die geoelektrisch-geologische/hydrogeologische Klassifikation und Interpretation, die auf den Messparametern Prozent Frequenz Effekt PFE und dem Widerstand R basiert. Ausgewählte Fallbeispiele aus internationalen TBM-Projekten zeigen Vorauserkundungsergebnisse unterschiedlicher Explorationsziele und geologischer Situationen. Seit 2000 ist das Vorauserkundungssystem in der Anwendung und zeigt, dass es unter den schwierigen und unterschiedlichen Bedingungen im mechanisierten Tunnelbau sowohl im Hartgestein als auch im Lockergestein im Dauereinsatz zuverlässige Ergebnisse erbringt. [source]