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Journal articles on the topic "Temporary activities"
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Dr, Muchlis. "INDICATIONS OF WINDOW DRESSING ON COMMERCIAL BANKS IN INDONESIA." Jurnal Ilmu Manajemen & Ekonomika 8, no. 1 (October 16, 2018): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.35384/jime.v8i1.94.
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More than often, banks are ranked based on their total assets. The bigger its assets the higher its position in the rank. To maintain its position in a higher rank, a bank may take extra efforts, to maintain its total assets high, whether by increasing its performance or manipulating their financial statement like window dressing. The higher its position in the rank the more likely a bank to perform temporary banking activities at the year end to increase its assets. The examples of the such activities are increasing temporarily customer deposits in the year end. Those temporary activities in are tending toward a window dressing.This paper examines the possibilities of window dressing activities at the year end conducted by high ranked banks by temporarily pushed their assets up through extra efforts in gathering temporary customer deposits at the year end. If those window dressing activities really exist, researchers expect that data will show temporary increase in assets, customer deposits and also cost of funds of high ranked banks in Indonesia. Researcher uses the monthly data and started from January 2006 untill December 2011.This research shows an evidence that bank total assets increase significantly at the year-end and the increase is temporary. Further, the increase in total assets appears to be funded with purchased demand deposit, savings, and time deposits. This research also shows that larger banks are more likely than smaller banks to exhibit window dressing.Keywords: banks, window dressing, asset.
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Kushnir, Yaroslav. "COUNTERING TEMPORARY OCCUPATION: INTERNATIONAL ASPECT, FOREIGN EXPERIENCE, AND NATIONAL REALITIES." Law Journal of Donbass 74, no. 1 (2021): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32366/2523-4269-2021-74-1-10-19.
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This article provides a comprehensive study in areas of counteraction to the temporarily occupied territories of a sovereign state. Regulations, doctrinal approaches, international experience serve as a subject to this study in the context of a set of functional national activities of states that have faced the issue of territories’ separation. Particular attention is paid to foreign experience in counteracting the temporary occupation through the prism of the Republic of Cyprus which held an activity to counter the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, as one of the most successful examples of confrontation with the temporarily occupied territories for a long time and comparing Ukraine's activities in this field. To this end, the author conducts a comprehensive analysis of measures aimed at combating the spread and recognition of the temporarily occupied territories of the Republic of Cyprus, as well as the scientific achievements of international scientists who have studied this issue. Analyzing these objects, the author carries out the qualification based on the criteria of differentiation of measures accepted by foreign scientists and determines which measures were implemented to solve the same problem in Ukraine. Given the personal experience of operational and service activities of the author and a deep awareness of this topic, it is proposed to expand the generally accepted areas of counteraction. The author provides the grounding of additional direction on how to counter the expansion and recognition of the Ukrainian temporarily occupied territories, disclosing a complex of measures which were, and can be introduced for its realization. The result of this study is the formation of the author's approach to defining the complex concept of «counteraction to temporary occupation», the formation of a list of national measures to combat the temporarily occupied territories, and their classification, as well as proposals for the most effective countermeasures and their further use in law enforcement.
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Кальней and Vladimir Kalney. "Innovative approaches of high school students’ project activities." Socio-Humanitarian Research and Technology 2, no. 1 (March 5, 2013): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/291.
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Perspectives of pupils’ project activity development as a part of temporary multiple aged creative collective together with the students of higher educational institutions are investigated in this article. Offered methodology shows the increasing of high school pupils’ motivation to study the basics of collective scientific activity process.
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Lee, Kiseok, and Shawn Ni. "Stock returns, real activities and temporary and persistent inflation." Applied Financial Economics 6, no. 5 (October 1996): 433–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/096031096334060.
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Tukiainen, Sampo, and Nina Granqvist. "Temporary Organizing and Institutional Change." Organization Studies 37, no. 12 (September 24, 2016): 1819–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616662683.
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The relationship between the temporary and the permanent is a central issue in studies of temporary organizing. Recent research highlights that projects, as key forms of temporary organizations, both constitute and are constituted by their wider institutional contexts. However, there is still a lack of more detailed understanding of the actors and their activities through which projects produce and advance institutional change. To address this issue, we draw on extensive fieldwork to study the activities that constitute establishment of the Innovation University. This endeavour gained the status of a spearhead project and advanced nationwide university reform in one northern European country. Our central contribution is two-fold. We sediment a more robust approach to institutions within project literature by defining them as widely shared beliefs and practices that actors enact and (re)produce through their various activities. On this basis, we develop a model of an institutional project for regulative change and show that it is more parallel and multiplex and less sequential in nature than existing studies might convey. Our model also creates new understanding of the role of the ‘lock-ins’ shaped by projects to promote regulative change and casts light on the temporal linkages and temporal boundary objects in institutional projects. In closing, we discuss several future avenues for research in both project literature and institutional theory.
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Forde, Chris. "“You know we are not an Employment Agency”: Manpower, Government, and the Development of the Temporary Help Industry in Britain." Enterprise & Society 9, no. 2 (June 2008): 337–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1467222700006984.
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This article looks at the early development of the temporary help industry in Britain. It focuses on the activities of one of the largest suppliers of temporary workers, Manpower, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on material from The UK National Archives, the article examines Manpower's efforts to gain access as a genuine employer to the state employment exchange network to advertise their temporary vacancies. The article reveals the incremental changes in attitude within the government towards Manpower's activities and argues that this gave the company a competitive advantage over other employment agencies, facilitating their development of relations with the government and the trade unions in Britain over the 1970s and 1980s. The main conclusion of the article is that explicit attention needs to be paid to the actions and strategies of agencies themselves in order to develop an adequate understanding of the growth and development of the temporary help industry.
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Szaton, Karolina Marta. "The temporary use as a strategy for transforming the space of contemporary cities. Space transformations supported by the purposeful application of temporary use, based on a case study." Miscellanea Geographica 22, no. 4 (December 5, 2018): 231–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0031.
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Abstract Temporary use as a subject of work should be understood as temporary development or use of land and facilities, in a way that allows the best use of spatial resources at a given time and place. The author takes up the topic of temporary use being an intentional element of strategy in the design and planning of space. Analysis of practical applications focuses on the depiction of models of design and planning processes, the element of which is the temporary use of space and overall transformation processes, as well as features and functions of temporary uses. The researched practices concern processes composed of various elements, eg mutual relations of temporary use with permanent development. The analysis of good practices indicates a significant strengthening of the potential for temporary use, if it is implemented through a network of broad connections and the integration of various activities and environments.
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Forde, Dr Chris. "Temporary Arrangements: The Activities of Employment Agencies in the UK." Work, Employment and Society 15, no. 3 (September 2001): 631–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09500170122119039.
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Dhungana, Ananta Raj, Vikash Kumar KC, Purna Bahadur Khand, and Surya Mani Dhungana. "Determinants of Households’ Adaptation Practices against Climate Change Impact on Off-farm Activities in Western Hill of Nepal." Nepal Journal of Mathematical Sciences 1 (October 31, 2020): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njmathsci.v1i0.34163.
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Climate change is one of the serious concerns which have a substantial impact in all areas of human civilization. Among these areas, agriculture is the worst hit sector. This study aims to analyze the determinants of households’ adaptation practices against climate change impact on off-farm activities in western hill of Nepal. It utilizes the data collected from six village development committees from three districts (Lamjung, Tanahu and Kaski) of western hill of Nepal. Out of 245793 Households 556 households were chosen for the survey. A systematic random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Data was collected using pre-tested structured questionnaire through face to face interview with household head or a household member having age 45 years and above with residing in that locality since last 15 years. Binary logistic regression analysis has been carried out. Household size is only the matter for determining the households' adaptation practices for shifting to non-agricultural activities which is also the matter for temporary migration to another places. Education is the determining factor for changing the food consumption habit and temporary migration. Agriculture skill is the common determining factor for change in food consumption habit and shifting to non-agricultural activities. Sex and marital status are the major determining factors only for shifting to non-agricultural employment. Age is the significant predictor of temporary migration. Caste is also the major determining factor for changing the food consumption habit and temporary migration respectively.
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Dhungana, Ananta Raj, Vikash Kumar KC, Purna Bahadur Khand, and Surya Mani Dhungana. "Determinants of Households’ Adaptation Practices against Climate Change Impact on Off-farm Activities in Western Hill of Nepal." Nepal Journal of Mathematical Sciences 1 (October 31, 2020): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njmathsci.v1i0.34163.
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Climate change is one of the serious concerns which have a substantial impact in all areas of human civilization. Among these areas, agriculture is the worst hit sector. This study aims to analyze the determinants of households’ adaptation practices against climate change impact on off-farm activities in western hill of Nepal. It utilizes the data collected from six village development committees from three districts (Lamjung, Tanahu and Kaski) of western hill of Nepal. Out of 245793 Households 556 households were chosen for the survey. A systematic random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Data was collected using pre-tested structured questionnaire through face to face interview with household head or a household member having age 45 years and above with residing in that locality since last 15 years. Binary logistic regression analysis has been carried out. Household size is only the matter for determining the households' adaptation practices for shifting to non-agricultural activities which is also the matter for temporary migration to another places. Education is the determining factor for changing the food consumption habit and temporary migration. Agriculture skill is the common determining factor for change in food consumption habit and shifting to non-agricultural activities. Sex and marital status are the major determining factors only for shifting to non-agricultural employment. Age is the significant predictor of temporary migration. Caste is also the major determining factor for changing the food consumption habit and temporary migration respectively.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Temporary activities"
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Anders, Eriksson, and Sandberg Ludvig. "I en förvandlad stad : En flerfallsstudie om Malmö stads syn på temporära aktiviteter." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42614.
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Den här studien undersöker vilken roll temporära aktiviteter ges i Malmö stads stadsplaneringsprocess.Temporära aktiviteter är en term som omfattar en mängd olika aktiviteter i det offentliga rummen,men vår studie utgår från temporära aktiviteter som fysiskt förändrar och omgestaltar stadsrummet.Temporära aktiviteter och temporär användning har i takt med globaliseringen fått ett allt större utrymme ivästerländska städer, det kan därför ses som en motreaktion på en osäker framtid som präglas av växandeekonomiska, sociala och teknologiska förändringar. Tillämpningen av temporära aktiviteter är ett exempelpå att skapa mer flexibla och dynamiska platser för att ge städer mer livfulla stadsrum, det bidrar till ettdiversifierat och mer heterogent stadslandskap samt med ett förhöjt demokrativärde. Vår forskning baseras på en flerfallstudie av tre olika exempel på temporära aktiviteter som skiljer sig åtutifrån initiativtagarens intention och syfte med användningen. De tre exempel som presenteras i studien ärSteppe Side, Pig Barrier och Naturmolnet. Vi har i fallstudien genomfört två kvalitativa intervjuer gällandedessa exempel, samt genomfört en dokumentanalys för att tolka Malmö stads syn på temporära aktiviteter.Utifrån det empiriska materialet analyseras och diskuteras detta i förhållande till den teoretiska ingången. Studien visar att Malmö stad tillämpar en övergripande instrumentell syn på temporära aktiviteter, vilketinnebär att den ges en underordnad roll och endast fyller ett tomrum i väntan på att en mer gynnsamexploatering tar vid. Med en instrumentell syn på det temporära används det i marknadsföringssyfte och föratt bibehålla skenet av en urban tillväxt. Vad som går förlorat är de mervärden en temporär aktivitet medfördå syftet inte längre är för användarna, utan istället används som ett verktyg som riskerar att bidra till enökad gentrifiering. Vad vi också uppmärksammar i studien är att vi ser försök från Malmö stad till att gå moten mer flexibel och dynamisk planeringsprocess, men att de ännu inte är i det stadiet där det temporära kansamexistera med den långvariga planeringen. Avslutningsvis lyfter studien exempel på åtgärder som vi anserkan bidra till att nå till det stadie där det temporära lever i symbios med det permanenta.This study examines the role of temporary activities in the City of Malmö’s urban planning process.Temporary activities are a term that encompasses a variety of activities in public spaces, but our study isbased on temporary activities that physically change and transform the urban space. Temporary activitiesand temporary use have, in step with globalization, gained increasing space in Western cities, whichcan therefore be seen as a counter-reaction to an uncertain future characterized by growing economic,social and technological changes. The application of temporary activities is an example of creating moreflexible and dynamic places to give cities more lively urban spaces, it contributes to a diversified and moreheterogeneous urban landscape with an increased democratic value. Our research is based on a multiple-case study of three different examples of temporary activities that differbased on the initiator’s intention and purpose of use. The three examples presented in the study are SteppeSide, Pig Barrier and Naturmolnet. In the case study, we conducted two qualitative interviews regardingthese examples, and conducted a document analysis to interpret the City of Malmö’s view of temporaryactivities. Based on the empirical material, this is analyzed and discussed in relation to the theoreticalframework. The study shows that the City of Malmö applies an overall instrumental view of temporary activities,which means that it is given a subordinate role and only fills a void while waiting for a more favorabledevelopment to take over. With an instrumental view of the temporary, it is used for marketing purposesand to maintain the appearance of urban growth. What is lost is the added value a temporary activity entailsas the purpose is no longer for the users, but instead is used as a tool that risks contributing to increasedgentrification. The study also draws attention to the attempts from the City of Malmö to move towards amore flexible and dynamic planning process, but that they are not yet at the stage where the temporary cancoexist with the long-term planning. Finally, the study highlights examples of measures that we believe cancontribute to reaching the stage where the temporary lives in symbiosis with the permanent.
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Bouahim, Siham. "Usage et conservation des mares temporaires méditerranéennes : cas des mares temporaires de la région de Benslimane (Maroc occidental)." Thesis, Montpellier 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON20131/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur l'étude de la relation Homme-Mare temporaire dans la région de Benslimane. Une approche pluridisciplinaire intégrant l'écologie et la sociologie a été adoptée, afin d'apporter des réponses adaptées aux problématiques liées à ces habitats et de permettre leur développement durable. Le premier volet a pour but d'évaluer les facteurs clés déterminant la richesse de la végétation des mares de cette région. Les résultats obtenus révèlent l'influence prédominante des facteurs locaux, avec un effet significatif des facteurs régionaux et de la vulnérabilité des mares aux usages, sur l'expression de la richesse floristique. Les activités anthropiques affectent différemment la richesse en espèces Préférentielles. Le second volet se focalise sur les causes de régression des mares, en couplant l'évaluation des menaces à une enquête socio-économique. Les résultats montrent la prédominance d'une perception anthropocentrique des mares temporaires. Ce constat traduit le haut niveau de menace qui pèse sur les mares de cette région. L'évaluation de ces menaces, qui indique que 22 % des mares sont vulnérables et que 23 % sont menacées de destruction à court terme, soulignent le besoin urgent de nouvelles politiques environnementales et d'approches innovantes de gestion des mares temporaires. Enfin, le troisième volet s'intéresse à l'impact du pâturage sur la végétation des mares. Les résultats montrent que cette perturbation affecte la végétation des mares, à l'échelle régionale et locale. Ces résultats sont interprétés comme résultant de l'effet sélectif des herbivores et la tolérance différentielle des espèces aux perturbations. Au terme de cette étude, la gestion intégrée des mares apparaît comme le moyen le plus approprié pour le développement durable de cet "éco-socio-système" complexe, en conciliant développement économique et bon état écologique des ressources, et en liant les questions environnementales, économiques et socialesThis thesis focuses on the study of the relationship Man-Temporary pool. A multidisciplinary approach integrating ecology and sociology has been adopted to provide appropriate responses to the problems related to these ecosystems and to allow their sustainable development. The first section aims at evaluating the key factors determining the vegetation richness within regional pools. The obtained results reveal the predominant influence of local factors, with a significant effect of regional factors and the vulnerability of pools to use, on the expression of the vegetation. Human activities affect differently the richness in preferential pool species. The second section focuses on the major causes of the regression of pools, by coupling threats assessment and a socio-economic survey. The results point out the anthropocentric perception of pools. This translates the high level of threat concerning the temporary pools of Benslimane region. The thr eat assessment, which shows that 22 % of pools are vulnerable, and 23 % are threatened of destruction of the short term, highlights the urgent need for new environmental policies and innovative approaches of temporary pools management. Finally, the third section concerns the impact of grazing on the vegetation of temporary pools. The results demonstrate that grazing affects the vegetation of pools, both at the regional and the local scale. These results are interpreted as a result of the selective influence of herbivores, and the differential tolerance of species to disturbance. At the end of the present study, the integrated management of pools appears as the most appropriate means for the sustainable development of this complex eco-socio-system, by combining the economic development and the ecological status of resources, and by linking environmental, economic and social issues
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Starostina, Alexandra. "Redevelopment of Skeppsbron quay in Stockholm, Sweden." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-217387.
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Lipton, Zachary C. "Learning from Temporally-Structured Human Activities Data." Thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10683703.
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Despite the extraordinary success of deep learning on diverse problems, these triumphs are too often confined to large, clean datasets and well-defined objectives. Face recognition systems train on millions of perfectly annotated images. Commercial speech recognition systems train on thousands of hours of painstakingly-annotated data. But for applications addressing human activity, data can be noisy, expensive to collect, and plagued by missing values. In electronic health records, for example, each attribute might be observed on a different time scale. Complicating matters further, deciding precisely what objective warrants optimization requires critical consideration of both algorithms and the application domain. Moreover, deploying human-interacting systems requires careful consideration of societal demands such as safety, interpretability, and fairness.
The aim of this thesis is to address the obstacles to mining temporal patterns in human activity data. The primary contributions are: (1) the first application of RNNs to multivariate clinical time series data, with several techniques for bridging long-term dependencies and modeling missing data; (2) a neural network algorithm for forecasting surgery duration while simultaneously modeling heteroscedasticity; (3) an approach to quantitative investing that uses RNNs to forecast company fundamentals; (4) an exploration strategy for deep reinforcement learners that significantly speeds up dialogue policy learning; (5) an algorithm to minimize the number of catastrophic mistakes made by a reinforcement learner; (6) critical works addressing model interpretability and fairness in algorithmic decision-making.
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Cheng, Guangchun. "Video Analytics with Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Activities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799541/.
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As video capturing devices become more ubiquitous from surveillance cameras to smart phones, the demand of automated video analysis is increasing as never before. One obstacle in this process is to efficiently locate where a human operator’s attention should be, and another is to determine the specific types of activities or actions without ambiguity. It is the special interest of this dissertation to locate spatial and temporal regions of interest in videos and to develop a better action representation for video-based activity analysis. This dissertation follows the scheme of “locating then recognizing” activities of interest in videos, i.e., locations of potentially interesting activities are estimated before performing in-depth analysis. Theoretical properties of regions of interest in videos are first exploited, based on which a unifying framework is proposed to locate both spatial and temporal regions of interest with the same settings of parameters. The approach estimates the distribution of motion based on 3D structure tensors, and locates regions of interest according to persistent occurrences of low probability. Two contributions are further made to better represent the actions. The first is to construct a unifying model of spatio-temporal relationships between reusable mid-level actions which bridge low-level pixels and high-level activities. Dense trajectories are clustered to construct mid-level actionlets, and the temporal relationships between actionlets are modeled as Action Graphs based on Allen interval predicates. The second is an effort for a novel and efficient representation of action graphs based on a sparse coding framework. Action graphs are first represented using Laplacian matrices and then decomposed as a linear combination of primitive dictionary items following sparse coding scheme. The optimization is eventually formulated and solved as a determinant maximization problem, and 1-nearest neighbor is used for action classification. The experiments have shown better results than existing approaches for regions-of-interest detection and action recognition.
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Cheng, Tao. "Automated safety analysis of construction site activities using spatio-temporal data." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47564.
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During the past 10 years, construction was the leading industry of occupational fatalities when compared to other goods producing industries in the US. This is partially attributed to ineffective safety management strategies, specifically lack of automated construction equipment and worker monitoring. Currently, worker safety performance is measured and recorded manually, assessed subjectively, and the resulting performance information is infrequently shared among selected or all project stakeholders. Accurate and emerging remote sensing technology provides critical spatio-temporal data that has the potential to automate and advance the safety monitoring of construction processes.
This doctoral research focuses on pro-active safety utilizing radio-frequency location tracking (Ultra Wideband) and real-time three-dimensional (3D) immersive data visualization technologies. The objective of the research is to create a model that can automatically analyze the spatio-temporal data of the main construction resources (personnel, materials, and equipment), and automatically measure, assess, and visualize worker's safety performance. The research scope is limited to human-equipment interaction in a complex construction site layout where proximities among construction resources are omnipresent. In order to advance the understanding of human-equipment proximity issues, extensive data has been collected in various field trials and from projects with multiple scales. Computational algorithms developed in this research process the data to provide spatio-temporal information that is crucial for construction activity monitoring and analysis. Results indicate that worker's safety performance of selected activities can be automatically and objectively measured using the developed model.
The major contribution of this research is the creation of a proximity hazards assessment model to automatically analyze spatio-temporal data of construction resources, and measure, evaluate, and visualize their safety performance. This research will significantly contribute to transform safety measures in construction industry, as it can determine and communicate automatically safe and unsafe conditions to various project participants located on the field or remotely.
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Jørgensen, Carl-Johan. "Scheduling activities under spatial and temporal constraints to populate virtual urban environments." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REN1S033/document.
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Les modèles de simulation de foules visent généralement à produire des foules visuellement crédibles avec l'intention d'insuffler de la vie à des environnements virtuels. Notre travail se concentre sur la génération de comportements statistiquement cohérents qui peuvent être utilisés pour piloter des modèles de simulation de foules sur de longues périodes de temps, jusqu'à plusieurs jours. Dans les foules réelles, les comportements des individus dépendent principalement de l'activité qu'ils ont l'intention d'effectuer. La façon d’ordonnancer cette activité repose sur l'interaction étroite qui existe entre l'environnement, les contraintes spatiales et temporelles associées à l'activité et les caractéristiques personnelles des individus. Par rapport à l'état de l'art, notre modèle gérer mieux cette interaction. Nos principales contributions se situent dans le domaine de l'ordonnancement d'activités et de la planification de chemin. Dans un premier temps, nous proposons un processus d'ordonnancement d'activités individuelles et son extension aux activités coopératives. Basé sur les descriptions de l'environnement, des activités désirées et des caractéristiques des agents, ces processus génèrent une séquence de la tâche pour chaque agent. Des lieux où ces tâches doivent être effectuées sont sélectionnés et un timing relâché est produit. Cet ordonnancement est compatible avec les contraintes spatiales et temporelles liées à l'environnement et à l'activité prévue par l'agent et par d'autres agents en coopération. Il prend également en compte les caractéristiques personnelles des agents, induisant de la diversité dans les ordonnancements produits. Nous montrons que notre modèle produit des comportements statistiquement cohérents avec ceux produits par des personnes dans les mêmes situations. Dans un second temps, nous proposons un processus de planification de chemins hiérarchique. Il repose sur un processus d'analyse de l'environnement automatique qui produit une représentation hiérarchique sémantiquement cohérente des villes virtuelles. La nature hiérarchique de cette représentation est utilisée pour modéliser différents niveaux de prise de décisions. Un chemin grossier est d'abord calculé, puis raffiné pendant la navigation lorsque de l'information pertinente est disponible, permettant ainsi à l'agent d'adapter son chemin à des événements inattendus. Le modèle proposé gère des décisions rationnelles à long terme guidant la navigation des agents dans les villes virtuelles. Il prend en compte la forte relation entre le temps, l'espace et l'activité pour produire les comportements des agents plus crédibles de. Il peut être utilisé pour peupler facilement des villes virtuelles avec des foules au sein desquelles des phénomènes observables émergent de l'activité individuelleCrowd simulation models usually aim at producing visually credible crowds with the intent of giving life to virtual environments. Our work focusses on generating statistically consistent behaviours that can be used to pilot crowd simulation models over long periods of time, up to multiple days. In real crowds, people's behaviours mainly depend on the activities they intend to perform. The way this activity is scheduled rely on the close interaction between the environment, space and time constraints associated with the activity and personal characteristics of individuals. Compared to the state of the art, our model better handle this interaction. Our main contributions lie in the domain of activity scheduling and path planning. First, we propose an individual activity scheduling process and its extension to cooperative activity scheduling. Based on descriptions of the environment, of intended activities and of agents' characteristics, these processes generate a task schedule for each agent. Locations where the tasks should be performed are selected and a relaxed agenda is produced. This task schedule is compatible with spatial and temporal constraints associated with the environment and with the intended activity of the agent and of other cooperating agents. It also takes into account the agents personal characteristics, inducing diversity in produced schedules. We show that our model produces schedules statistically coherent with the ones produced by humans in the same situations. Second, we propose a hierarchical path-planning process. It relies on an automatic environment analysis process that produces a semantically coherent hierarchical representation of virtual cities. The hierarchical nature of this representation is used to model different levels of decision making related to path planning. A coarse path is first computed, then refined during navigation when relevant information is available. It enable the agent to seamlessly adapt its path to unexpected events. The proposed model handles long term rational decisions driving the navigation of agents in virtual cities. It considers the strong relationship between time, space and activity to produce more credible agents' behaviours. It can be used to easily populate virtual cities in which observable crowd phenomena emerge from individual activities
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Bhonsle, Shailendra K. "Semiorder model for temporal composition of activities from events in multi-sensory information management systems /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9963652.
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LaFever, Kristin E. "Spatial and temporal winter territory use and behavioral responses of whooping cranes to human activities." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1877.
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Macgregor, Kenneth Gordon Neils. "Spatial and temporal variations in potentially toxic elemental (Sb, Pb, Cu and Zn) and PAH concentrations and associations in run-off from urban and rural areas of Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25497.
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Since the UK industrial revolution, coal combustion, ore smelting and other industrial activities have resulted in a marked increase in emissions of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) such as antimony (Sb), lead (Pb), arsenic (As), copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn), along with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), to the atmosphere. Although stricter environmental regulation and improved technology has led to a notable decline for some contaminant emissions in recent decades, this has not been observed for all elements, e.g. Sb, where only a modest reduction in emissions have been recorded. Once emitted, Sb along with Pb, As, Cu, Zn and PAHs may persist in the environment for considerable periods of time after their release; although their chemical associations may change, elements are not broken down over time and organic contaminants may break down slowly. Above all, PTEs and PAHs are detrimental to human and environmental health, with chemical forms of Sb, Pb, As and PAHs categorised as carcinogenic. Understanding their behaviour and fate in the environment is therefore an important step towards evaluating their likely impact on both ecosystem and human health. Consequently, this study focuses on the release, behaviour and fate of contaminants from current and past anthropogenic sources in the urban and rural environment, with a specific interest in Sb and PAHs, where emissions originate from similar anthropogenic sources, with Pb, As, Cu and Zn also included for comparison purposes. Current and past industrial activity was identified as the dominant source of PTEs and PAHs to the urban environment, with emissions from vehicle, coal combustion and metal smelting identified as main contributors to total contaminant concentrations. Using road dust collected from Edinburgh at five high- and low-traffic roads at a distance of 10 and 50 m from the closest road junction, concentrations of Sb, Pb, Cu, Zn, PAHs and Pb isotope ratios were determined, with road dust undergoing further characterisation using chemical (sequential extraction) and spectroscopic (X-ray diffraction, SEM-EDX) techniques. No consistent trend for the element concentrations released from vehicles braking at 10 and 50 m from the closest road junction was observed. Mean concentrations for Sb, Cu and Zn were 5.3 ± 2.8 mg kg-1, 91.4 ± 48 mg kg-1 and 237 ± 144 mg kg-1, respectively, and were similar to road dust sampled from five high- and five low-traffic locations in Glasgow (Sb 4.5 ± 2.1 mg kg-1; Cu 117 ± 71.9 mg kg-1; Zn: 283 ± 146 mg kg-1). This was in contrast to mean concentrations for Pb and Σ16PAHs obtained from Glasgow (Pb 250 ± 283 mg kg-1, Σ16PAH 7.7 ± 4.3 mg kg-1) where values were approximately double and two-thirds greater than those found in Edinburgh (Pb 135 ± 129 mg kg-1, Σ16PAH 4.7 ± 2.9 mg kg-1), respectively. Lead isotopic analysis of Glasgow road dust (206Pb/207Pb range of 1.140-1.174) showed a strong influence of past emissions from coal combustion and metal smelting, and was in agreement with Glasgow's industrial history. For Edinburgh, the isotopic signature was considerably lower (206Pb/207Pb range of 1.116-1.151), and was influenced moreso by emissions of Australian sourced Pb in leaded fuel. Isotopic signatures in Edinburgh were lowest at easterly locations within 5 km of Edinburgh airport (206Pb/207Pb ~ 1.12), and corresponded with past vehicle emissions from leaded petrol use, and to a lesser degree, emissions from avgas, which was consistent with the mean annual wind direction for Edinburgh. The mobility of elements from the road dust to the aqueous phase were assessed by sequential extraction, and by using road surface water samples which showed mobility decreased in the order of Zn > Cu > Pb > Sb. Road dust characterised by XRD and SEM-EDX had a high proportion of quartz present (~55%), whilst the presence of less abundant minerals such as calcite were found to increase Pb mobility through ease of dissolution into the aqueous phase. For the rural environment, the behaviour and fate of elemental pollution originating from two former mining sites, an Sb mine at Glendinning, SW Scotland, and a Pb mine at Tyndrum in central Scotland was examined. Under specific environmental conditions, Sb was found to be both mobile and immobile in the environment. The chemical weathering of stibnite found in spoil heaps at Glendinning Sb mine demonstrated that ~3% of total Sb can be mobilised during the chemical weathering process, while hydrous Fe oxides and organic matter in the surrounding soil favoured its retention. The retention of Sb, along with Pb, was similarly observed in Loch Tay sediment downstream of Tyndrum Pb mine, where upon deposition, Sb and Pb remained immobile in sediment and allowed the construction of deposition chronologies for two sediment cores to be established. Excellent agreement between the sediment core deposition chronologies was observed, with both chronologies identifying atmospheric deposition as the primary source of Sb to Loch Tay sediment, whilst the dominant source of Pb was from Tyndrum Pb mine ~25 km upstream of Loch Tay. Relative to Sb and Pb, As had the greatest mobility, with its geochemical behaviour and partial retention by the solid phase influenced by the presence of Fe. This was evident in the surrounding soil at Glendinning Sb mine, where As was associated with hydrous Fe oxides present in the solid phase, while at Loch Tay, the redox cycling of Fe resulted in the post-depositional mobility of As in sediment. The use of ombrotrophic peat bogs for this study provided an effective means to assess atmospheric deposition of contaminants over past centuries; they continually accumulate and receive all their nutrients and contaminants exclusively by deposition from the atmosphere. The deposition archives of Sb and Pb from two Scottish peat cores sampled from Great Moss, Cairngorms Mountains, and, Auchencorth Moss, Midlothian, were used to construct chronologies for historic and contemporary emissions, particularly in relation to current and historic anthropogenic activities observed in urban and rural environments. At Great Moss, the deposition of Sb and Pb during the 19th century increased by a factor of 10 and 4, respectively, as a result of the industrial revolution and emissions from the combustion of coal and metal smelting. The trend continued into the 20th century where Sb and Pb deposition peaked ~1950, followed by a decline towards the early 21st century by a factor of 5 and 11, respectively. Over this period of time, the contribution from coal combustion and metal smelting towards total anthropogenic emissions was on the decline, while emissions from the combustion of leaded fuel increased until the ~1980s. Although deposition chronologies before 1970 for Sb and Pb at Auchencorth Moss were generally in agreement with those from Great Moss, several differences were observed after 1970, or more specifically, in the top ~10 cm of the peat core. This was a result of sub-surface perturbations for Ti, Sb, Pb and 210Pb concentrations, and indicated once deposited, elements were susceptible to post-depositional mobility brought about from a change in environmental conditions. The thicker acrotelm layer present at Auchencorth Moss, and the vertical movement of the peat water-table within this layer, resulted in a change in redox conditions and led to the redox cycling of Mn and Fe, which in turn, influenced vertical concentrations of Ti, Sb, Pb and 210Pb. While Sb and Pb are usually found immobile in peat systems, the post-deposition mobility of Sb and Pb at Auchencorth Moss was comparable to a peat core sampled from Flanders Moss, and indicated that under specific environmental conditions, both elements can become mobile in ombrotrophic peat bogs. It is worth bearing in mind however, that these results are the exception, and in all other cases ombrotrophic peat bogs remain a reliable archival material to use.
Books on the topic "Temporary activities"
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Borisova, M. Pedagogy of the camp. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/25002.
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Academic edition is a part of the educational complex consisting of a tutorial and workshop, which is designed to help the students in mastering of educational disciplines included in the undergraduate program, and teaching practice. The textbook discusses the history of the emergence and development of summer camps, presents materials that are necessary for the organization of work in children's camp: theoretical foundations of organizing the activities of counselors, guidelines for working with children of different age groups, the performance of the regime moments, forms and methods of organization of process of education in DOLLARS, etc. In the workshop the material presented on the organization of different activities of children and adolescents in the camp. The allowance is aimed at assisting the counselor in working with the temporary children's collective in the conditions of the camp.
The content of the textbook meets the requirements of Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation.
For students of higher educational institutions enrolled in the fields of study within the enlarged group "Education and pedagogy", as well as professionals of education and all those interested in problems of children's recreation and recuperation.
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Office, General Accounting. Welfare reform: Work-site-based activities can play an important role in TANF programs : report to Congressional requesters. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 2000.
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Walter, Helen Jane. The spatio-temporal modulation of the insulin-like growth factor[s] axis in the lesioned central nervous system: Implications for endocrine, paracrine and autocrine activities. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1996.
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Bédoin, Centre culturel de la ville de. Potiers à Bédoin, 2000 ans de tradition: Activités et industries céramiques autour du Mont Ventoux des origines à nos jours : exposition temporaire, Centre culturel de la ville de Bédoin, du 28 juin au 20 septembre 2010. Marseille: Images en manœuvres, 2010.
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From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia. Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Korabelnikov, Daniil, and Andrey Strahov. Arterial hypertension: guide on diagnostics, treatment, examination. Moscow Medical - Social Institute named after Friedrich Haass, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.35571/mmsi.2018.1.001.
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The Guide is intended to systematize and update information on the diagnostics, treatment of arterial hypertension; examination of temporary disability, medical-social and military-medical examination of patients with arterial hypertension, for educational and practical assistance to students of medical universities in clinical residency, postgraduate and post-graduate programs, advanced training of specialist doctors; professors of medical universities in the process of their self-education and self-development, methodological and pedagogical activities.
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Han, Shihui. Cultural priming on cognition and underlying brain activity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198743194.003.0006.
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Chapter 6 examines the effects of cultural priming on cognition and brain activity by reviewing brain imaging evidence that temporary shifts of cultural knowledge systems toward independence or interdependence can significantly modulated brain activities involved in pain-related sensory processing, visual perception, self-face recognition and self-reflection, monetary reward, empathy, and a resting state. These findings provide evidence for a causal relationship between cultural belief/value and functional organization of the human brain. The findings further suggest that functional brain activity is constrained by both the sustained cultural frameworks formulated during long-term cultural experiences and the transient cultural frameworks induced by short-term exposure to cultural values.
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Borch, Fred L. Trials for Mass Murder and Unlawful Executions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777168.003.0007.
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Temporary courts-martial heard evidence of “mass murder” and “unlawful executions” carried out by the Japanese during the occupation. The murders were either in retaliation for general resistance to their authority or else because “military necessity” required it. As for unlawful executions, the gist of this offense was that the accused had killed (or had ordered his subordinates to kill) one or more citizens for some alleged crime or misconduct, but that the execution had occurred without any regularly constituted trial or hearing to determine guilt or innocence. This chapter looks at representative cases in both categories. It also looks at the so-called “Haga Plot” and the “Overakker Plot,” in which prominent Dutch officials were executed for their involvement in so-called “anti-Japanese activities.”
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Plehwe, Dieter. Neoliberal Think Tanks and the Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190676681.003.0011.
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The global financial and economic crisis is widely considered a fundamental crisis of neoliberalism. But the contribution of neoliberals to the ongoing debate on causes and consequences of the crisis has been a substantial, if belittled or even ignored, factor of influence. A review of postcrisis activities of organized neoliberal networks directs attention to their continuing influence in shaping the interpretation of the crisis and preference formation processes with regard to proposed solutions. An agenda of minimal welfare state solutions that are compatible with the market systems has been reconfirmed; it both accepts temporary increases of welfare budgets and aims at constitutionalizing the long-term decrease of welfare budgets through austerity regimes at the same time. Different reservoirs of neoliberal thinking, like the distinct Austrian school and German-Swiss ordoliberal traditions, play an important role in the contemporary controversies on economics and welfare.
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Office, General Accounting. Welfare reform: Work-site-based activities can play an important role in TANF programs : report to Congressional requesters. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 2000.
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Rhazi, Laïla, Mouhssine Rhazi, Patrick Grillas, and Driss El Khyari. "Richness and structure of plant communities in temporary pools from western Morocco: influence of human activities." In Macrophytes in Aquatic Ecosystems: From Biology to Management, 197–203. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5390-0_28.
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Franke, Jörn, François Charoy, and Paul El Khoury. "Collaborative Coordination of Activities with Temporal Dependencies." In On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010, 186–203. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16934-2_15.
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Baran, Jolanta, Tamara Cierpiałowska, and Ewa Dyduch. "The Use of the UDL Approach as a Factor in the Success of Inclusive Education Despite the Pandemic Period." In Inclusive Learning and Educational Equity, 119–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80658-3_6.
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AbstractThe action research reported in this chapter lasted for one semester. This was a novel time because schools, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, suspended their in-person activities and implemented online learning. This has necessitated the formulation of research purposes and problems appropriate to the dynamically changing educational reality (and beyond). This chapter provides a theoretical background to the risks to education during a pandemic. The assumptions, implementation and results of the research project implemented by the action research method in the selected Polish class are also discussed. The empirical data, mainly qualitative, triangulated by various sources of information, reconciled perspectives that were used to identify specific topics and threads appearing in the gathered inputs, to present it in an orchestrated manner and to interpret it. The analyses carried out lead to the conclusion that the application of the UDL approach promotes the success of inclusive education, despite the difficult experiences of the pandemic period. It has been proven that UDL approach implementation has a positive impact on the course of the teaching-learning process, optimises it to enhance the activity, commitment, self-reliance and responsibility of students and develops their cooperation, which breeds inclusion in education. The extraordinary situation faced by teachers and pupils due to the need to switch to online learning, contrary to temporary concerns, has reinforced the changes brought about by the implementation of the UDL approach in the learning process.
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Kesim Çiçekli, Nihan. "A Temporal Reasoning Approach to Model Workflow Activities." In Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, 256–65. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48521-x_20.
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Pöppel, Ernst. "Three Seconds: A Temporal Platform for Conscious Activities." In On Human Nature, 73–79. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50023-7_5.
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Ooi, Shih Yin, Shing Chiang Tan, and Wooi Ping Cheah. "Classifying Human Activities with Temporal Extension of Random Forest." In Neural Information Processing, 3–10. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46681-1_1.
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Calzarossa, Maria Carla, and Luisa Massari. "Temporal Analysis of Crawling Activities of Commercial Web Robots." In Computer and Information Sciences III, 429–36. London: Springer London, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4594-3_44.
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Li, Xiuquan, Zhidong Deng, and Jianwei Zhang. "Function of EEG Temporal Complexity Analysis in Neural Activities Measurement." In Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2009, 209–18. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01507-6_25.
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Liu, Bingbin, Serena Yeung, Edward Chou, De-An Huang, Li Fei-Fei, and Juan Carlos Niebles. "Temporal Modular Networks for Retrieving Complex Compositional Activities in Videos." In Computer Vision – ECCV 2018, 569–86. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01219-9_34.
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Voinikonis, Andrei. "Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Temporal Aspects of Complex Activities." In Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, 129–43. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11562948_12.
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Hurter, Christophe, Benjamin R. Cowan, Audrey Girouard, and Nathalie Henry Riche. "Active Progress Bar: Aiding the switch to temporary activities." In The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction. BCS Learning & Development, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2012.15.
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Kim, Jonghoon, and Martin Fischer. "Formalization of the Features of Activities and Classification of Temporary Structures to Support an Automated Temporary Structure Planning." In International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering 2007. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40937(261)42.
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Dozaki, Koji, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Adachi, Katsuhide Muraoka, and Yusuke Kono. "Rules for Temporary Repair Techniques in JSME Fitness-for-Service Code and Their Challenges." In ASME 2015 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2015-45903.
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Chapter of Repair, Replacement Activities (RRA) in Fitness-For-Service (FFS) Code of the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) includes rules of article RB-3000 for temporary repair techniques in the use of covering leakage during operation of a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Temporary repair techniques are RB-3010 Plating, RB-3020 Adhesion and RB-3030 Infill. In this paper, rules of these temporary repair techniques are summarized as well as the meaning of ‘temporary’, intention and benefit of them. On the other hand, these rules of temporary repair techniques were provided by Thermal and Nuclear Power Engineering Society (TENPES) at first in 1986, about thirty years ago. “Plant Operation and Maintenance Standards (POMS) Plan” developed by Japan Power Engineering and Inspection Corporation (JAPEIC) in 1996 incorporated those rules of temporary repair techniques, then JSME FFS Code has taken over them from POMS. Because the design rules of these temporary repair techniques have had much margin since origin, it may result in excessive design, or time-consuming procurement of parts. Especially, since these temporary repair techniques are often applied to the leakage around valve gland and flange, simpler and more practical modified rules could provide more benefit for effective repair activities. In this paper, an orientation of possible revision is described on temporary repair techniques rules in JSME FFS Code.
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O’Sullivan, J. E. (Jim), and Kevin J. Hacker. "Temporary Acceptance of Leaking Brazed Joints." In ASME 2018 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2018-84779.
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Minor leakage in brazed joints is occasionally detected in nuclear power plant Class 3 piping systems such as emergency service water cooling lines for equipment room and containment area coolers. Detection of such leakage often causes the system to be taken out of service for performance of repair/replacement activities to restore the piping to its original condition. This can lead to plant shutdowns or outage delays which are very costly, and often at increased safety risk, to accomplish the repairs. To avoid such costs and increased risk, a method is needed to establish structural adequacy of leaking brazed joints so that leakage can be controlled and monitored until the next planned opportunity for replacement of the brazed joint. During industry testing performed in the late 1950s, over 1200 lap joint tensile test specimens were brazed in a round-robin series of tests performed by 10 laboratories. The results of these tests showed that very little overlap is needed in a brazed lap joint to obtain full strength in the joint. In fact, braze metal shear strength exceeded piping collapse strength in all cases when the braze overlap was only 2.3 times the thickness of the members being brazed. Similar testing was performed by the U.S. Navy, and resulted in development of a NAVSEA document that established a conservative percentage of bond required for MIL F-1183 brazed fittings to prevent structural failure of a leaking brazed joint. This paper discusses an ASME Section XI Code Case that has been developed to incorporate the results of this testing into a methodology for temporary acceptance of leakage of brazed lap joints in copper, copper-nickel, and nickel-copper ASME Code Class 3 nuclear piping systems.
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Stepennov, D. B., A. P. Varnavin, A. A. Zakharchev, and L. Pillette-Cousin. "Methodological and Practical Bases of Providing Information Support to Activities on Environmental Remediation of the Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste Temporary Storage Facility in Gremikha." In ASME 2011 14th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2011-59375.
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Remediation of a spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and radioactive waste (RW) temporary storage facility is a multifaceted process that includes a number of stages, such as development of a remediation programme, performance of comprehensive engineering and radiological survey, development of a remediation design, removal of SNF and RW up to the site cleanup. At any stage of the remediation, making of justified decisions is ensured by availability and completeness of associated information. Huge amount of information has to be managed. Therefore an information analysis system (IAS) was developed by the National Research Centre «Kurchatov Institute» within the framework of the project for environmental remediation of the SNF and RW temporary storage facility in Gremikha with financial and technical support provided by France (CEA) and the Russian Federation (Rosatom). The IAS accumulates all information about the project: technical and radiological characteristics of objects/facilities, cartographic information, documentation, data on the project participants, technologies and equipment involved. The IAS architecture includes the following functional subsystems: data management, data analytical processing, project management, geoinformation, 3D modeling, and public information. The IAS allows developers and performers of environmental remediation of the SNF and RW temporary storage facility in Gremikha to fulfill tasks arising at all stages of the work. The IAS operating experience can be transferred for use during surveys and remediation of any radiation hazardous facilities.
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Bowie, Angus. "A Comparison of Double Block and Bleed Technologies." In 2012 9th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2012-90020.
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Double Block and Bleed is a term often used in the oil and gas industry to define a level of isolation sufficient to perform maintenance activities. The true definition relates to incumbent valves providing two proven levels of isolation against the outboard pressure to permit breaching of containment in the isolated pipe. This paper assesses how temporary isolation devices can provide equivalent isolation where incumbent valves do not exist at appropriate locations in the system. It reviews the different interpretations of Double Block and Bleed used within the industry and compares how different isolation devices are assessed in relation to the level of isolation they provide. It will reference several examples from around the world of where temporary isolation devices have been used to replace valves and perform repairs in trunk pipelines without depressurising the whole pipeline. It will also cover examples of isolating live process pipe to perform maintenance activities outside plant shutdown.
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Tomašković, Slavko, and Julka Sremac. "THE FUNDAMENTAL FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION ON THE EXAMPLE OF SUBOTICA LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT." In Sixth International Scientific-Business Conference LIMEN Leadership, Innovation, Management and Economics: Integrated Politics of Research. Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31410/limen.2020.363.
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Organizations, as well as individuals, realized that they possess their core, the core which consists of the necessary activities and necessary people, the core which is surrounded by an open and flexible space that can be complemented with flexible workers and flexible delivery contracts. The attempts to save money, by downsizing the management layers or by hiring temporary workers, change the form of the organization and the style of coordination within the organization itself. This paper will firstly explain the notion of organization and organizing. Since the example which will be presented is the Local Self-Government Subotica organization, the author will state the specific characteristics of a public organization first.
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Shirokaya, M. Yr. "Self-organization and feeling of time freelancers." In INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL ONLINE CONFERENCE. Знание-М, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.38006/907345-50-8.2020.724.739.
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The article presents the results of studying the features of self-organization of activities and the experience of time by freelancers. The sample of freelancers was 96 people, the average age was 33.4 years, the sample of office employees (control group) was 69 people, the average age was 33.8. The samples were made up of professionals from different fields of activity with work experience from 1 year to 22. Methods were used: 1. Questionnaire of self-organization of activity (Mandrikova, 2010), 2. Manager’s Time syndrome (Vodopyanova, 2018). Time perspective (Zimbardo, svord, svord, 2017). To obtain the results, the SPSS statistical package, version 22, used the Kolmogorov test for testing the normality of the distribution, nonparametric descriptive statistics, comparison of averages (Z-test), and Spearman correlation analysis. As a result of the study, freelancers were identified: conscious self-organization of activities; purposefulness and perseverance; orientation to the future, which contributes to high purposefulness and self-organization; temporary tension in activities and the severity of time syndrome; the problem of balancing life and activity time, which is aggravated by increasing dependence on work; the dominance of” Mature “ freelancers of various forms of time deficit experience; different effects of control / lack of control over work on the development of time syndrome in freelancers and office employees.
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McGill, Robert O., Kari L. Den Herder, Daniel B. Patten, and Steven P. Queen. "Recent Applications of ASME Code Case N-513 for Evaluation of Nonplanar Leaking Flaws." In ASME 2008 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2008-61639.
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ASME Code Case N-513, Evaluation Criteria for Temporary Acceptance of Flaws in Moderate Energy Class 2 or 3 Piping, provides evaluation rules for the temporary acceptance of flaws, including through-wall flaws, in moderate energy Class 2 or 3 piping without performing repair/replacement activities. The Code Case has gone through three revisions with the latest approved by ASME Section XI being N-513-2. The Code Case allows for evaluation of both planar and nonplanar flaws. The planar flaw evaluation uses the rules in Appendix C of ASME Section XI. The nonplanar flaw evaluation uses the procedure provided in Code Case N-480. This Code Case has been used widely in the nuclear industry ever since it was published. Its use is expected to grow with plant aging and especially since Revision 2 was recently endorsed by the NRC in Regulatory Guide 1.147 without condition. The paper describes three specific applications of the Code Case to accept leaking flaws in piping components for continued operation till the end of the operating cycle when repairs could be performed. The use of this Code Case thus avoided costly and unnecessary shutdown of the plants in these cases. The evaluation procedures using this Code Case for these instances are described in the paper.
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Stefanova, Ira G., and Mayia D. Mateeva. "Experience in Upgrading of Novi Han Repository." In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1162.
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Abstract Novi Han Repository is the only existing repository in Bulgaria for the disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear applications in industry, medicine and research. The repository was constructed in the early sixties according to the existing requirements. It was operated by the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy for more than thirty years without any accident or release of radioactivity to the environment, but without any investment for upgrading. As a consequence, the Bulgarian Nuclear Safety Authority temporarily stopped the operation of the repository in 1994. The measures for upgrading Novi Han Repository, supported by the IAEA with TC Project BUL/4/005 “Increasing Safety of Novi Han Repository”, are presented in this paper. They consist of: assessment of radionuclide inventory and future waste arisings, characterization of disposal vaults, characterization of the site, safety assessment, upgrading of the monitoring system, option study for the selection of treatment and conditioning processes and the development of a conceptual design for low and intermediate level waste processing and storage facility, immediate measures for improvement of the existing disposal vaults and infrastructure, and construction of above-ground temporary storage structures. The outstanding activities for re-opening of the Novi Han Repository and implementation of the measures for reconstruction of the Novi Han Repository are discussed.
Reports on the topic "Temporary activities"
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Ji, Qiang. Modeling Interval Temporal Dependencies for Complex Activities Understanding. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, October 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada607523.
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Bourgeois, J., D. Fisher, C. Zdanowicz, and J. Zheng. International Polar Year activities: spatial and temporal trends of climate and airborne contaminants in the Arctic region from snow and ice. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/290195.
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Napier, B. A., and J. C. Simpson. Determination of the temporal resolution required for the HEDR dose code. Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: Dose code recovery activities, Calculation 008. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), December 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10124181.
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Quinn, Meghan. Geotechnical effects on fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing performance. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41325.
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Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a fiber optic sensing system that is used for vibration monitoring. At a minimum, DAS is composed of a fiber optic cable and an optic analyzer called an interrogator. The oil and gas industry has used DAS for over a decade to monitor infrastructure such as pipelines for leaks, and in recent years changes in DAS performance over time have been observed for DAS arrays that are buried in the ground. This dissertation investigates the effect that soil type, soil temperature, soil moisture, time in-situ, and vehicle loading have on DAS performance for fiber optic cables buried in soil. This was accomplished through a field testing program involving two newly installed DAS arrays. For the first installation, a new portion of DAS array was added to an existing DAS array installed a decade prior. The new portion of the DAS array was installed in four different soil types: native fill, sand, gravel, and an excavatable flowable fill. Soil moisture and temperature sensors were buried adjacent to the fiber optic cable to monitor seasonal environmental changes over time. Periodic impact testing was performed at set locations along the DAS array for over one year. A second, temporary DAS array was installed to test the effect of vehicle loading on DAS performance. Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of the DAS response was used for all the tests to evaluate the system performance. The results of the impact testing program indicated that the portions of the array in gravel performed more consistently over time. Changes in soil moisture or soil temperature did not appear to affect DAS performance. The results also indicated that time DAS performance does change somewhat over time. Performance variance increased in new portions of array in all material types through time. The SNR in portions of the DAS array in native silty sand material dropped slightly, while the SNR in portions of the array in sand fill and flowable fill material decreased significantly over time. This significant change in performance occurred while testing halted from March 2020 to August 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. These significant changes in performance were observed in the new portion of test bed, while the performance of the prior installation remained consistent. It may be that, after some time in-situ, SNR in a DAS array will reach a steady state. Though it is unfortunate that testing was on pause while changes in DAS performance developed, the observed changes emphasize the potential of DAS to be used for infrastructure change-detection monitoring. In the temporary test bed, increasing vehicle loads were observed to increase DAS performance, although there was considerable variability in the measured SNR. The significant variation in DAS response is likely due to various industrial activities on-site and some disturbance to the array while on-boarding and off-boarding vehicles. The results of this experiment indicated that the presence of load on less than 10% of an array channel length may improve DAS performance. Overall, this dissertation provides guidance that can help inform the civil engineering community with respect to installation design recommendations related to DAS used for infrastructure monitoring.
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Barnard, Andrew H., and Collin S. Roesler. Identification and Quantification of the Temporal and Spatial Scales of Variability in Particulate and Dissolved Material Associated with Specific Land-Use Activities in the Penobscot River System. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada522337.
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Kwon, Jaymin, Yushin Ahn, and Steve Chung. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Roadside Transportation Related Air Quality (STARTRAQ) and Neighborhood Characterization. Mineta Transportation Institute, August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2021.2010.
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To promote active transportation modes (such as bike ride and walking), and to create safer communities for easier access to transit, it is essential to provide consolidated data-driven transportation information to the public. The relevant and timely information from data facilitates the improvement of decision-making processes for the establishment of public policy and urban planning for sustainable growth, and for promoting public health in the region. For the characterization of the spatial variation of transportation-emitted air pollution in the Fresno/Clovis neighborhood in California, various species of particulate matters emitted from traffic sources were measured using real-time monitors and GPS loggers at over 100 neighborhood walking routes within 58 census tracts from the previous research, Children’s Health to Air Pollution Study - San Joaquin Valley (CHAPS-SJV). Roadside air pollution data show that PM2.5, black carbon, and PAHs were significantly elevated in the neighborhood walking air samples compared to indoor air or the ambient monitoring station in the Central Fresno area due to the immediate source proximity. The simultaneous parallel measurements in two neighborhoods which are distinctively different areas (High diesel High poverty vs. Low diesel Low poverty) showed that the higher pollution levels were observed when more frequent vehicular activities were occurring around the neighborhoods. Elevated PM2.5 concentrations near the roadways were evident with a high volume of traffic and in regions with more unpaved areas. Neighborhood walking air samples were influenced by immediate roadway traffic conditions, such as encounters with diesel trucks, approaching in close proximity to freeways and/or busy roadways, passing cigarette smokers, and gardening activity. The elevated black carbon concentrations occur near the highway corridors and regions with high diesel traffic and high industry. This project provides consolidated data-driven transportation information to the public including: 1. Transportation-related particle pollution data 2. Spatial analyses of geocoded vehicle emissions 3. Neighborhood characterization for the built environment such as cities, buildings, roads, parks, walkways, etc.
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Stall, Nathan M., Kevin A. Brown, Antonina Maltsev, Aaron Jones, Andrew P. Costa, Vanessa Allen, Adalsteinn D. Brown, et al. COVID-19 and Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.07.1.0.
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Key Message Ontario long-term care (LTC) home residents have experienced disproportionately high morbidity and mortality, both from COVID-19 and from the conditions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. There are several measures that could be effective in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks, hospitalizations, and deaths in Ontario’s LTC homes, if implemented. First, temporary staffing could be minimized by improving staff working conditions. Second, homes could be further decrowded by a continued disallowance of three- and four-resident rooms and additional temporary housing for the most crowded homes. Third, the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in staff could be minimized by approaches that reduce the risk of transmission in communities with a high burden of COVID-19. Summary Background The Province of Ontario has 626 licensed LTC homes and 77,257 long-stay beds; 58% of homes are privately owned, 24% are non-profit/charitable, 16% are municipal. LTC homes were strongly affected during Ontario’s first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions What do we know about the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Ontario LTC homes? Which risk factors are associated with COVID-19 outbreaks in Ontario LTC homes and the extent and death rates associated with outbreaks? What has been the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the general health and wellbeing of LTC residents? How has the existing Ontario evidence on COVID-19 in LTC settings been used to support public health interventions and policy changes in these settings? What are the further measures that could be effective in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks, hospitalizations, and deaths in Ontario’s LTC homes? Findings As of January 14, 2021, a total of 3,211 Ontario LTC home residents have died of COVID-19, totaling 60.7% of all 5,289 COVID-19 deaths in Ontario to date. There have now been more cumulative LTC home outbreaks during the second wave as compared with the first wave. The infection and death rates among LTC residents have been lower during the second wave, as compared with the first wave, and a greater number of LTC outbreaks have involved only staff infections. The growth rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections among LTC residents was slower during the first two months of the second wave in September and October 2020, as compared with the first wave. However, the growth rate after the two-month mark is comparatively faster during the second wave. The majority of second wave infections and deaths in LTC homes have occurred between December 1, 2020, and January 14, 2021 (most recent date of data extraction prior to publication). This highlights the recent intensification of the COVID-19 pandemic in LTC homes that has mirrored the recent increase in community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 across Ontario. Evidence from Ontario demonstrates that the risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks and subsequent deaths in LTC are distinct from the risk factors for outbreaks and deaths in the community (Figure 1). The most important risk factors for whether a LTC home will experience an outbreak is the daily incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the communities surrounding the home and the occurrence of staff infections. The most important risk factors for the magnitude of an outbreak and the number of resulting resident deaths are older design, chain ownership, and crowding. Figure 1. Anatomy of Outbreaks and Spread of COVID-19 in LTC Homes and Among Residents Figure from Peter Hamilton, personal communication. Many Ontario LTC home residents have experienced severe and potentially irreversible physical, cognitive, psychological, and functional declines as a result of precautionary public health interventions imposed on homes, such as limiting access to general visitors and essential caregivers, resident absences, and group activities. There has also been an increase in the prescribing of psychoactive drugs to Ontario LTC residents. The accumulating evidence on COVID-19 in Ontario’s LTC homes has been leveraged in several ways to support public health interventions and policy during the pandemic. Ontario evidence showed that SARS-CoV-2 infections among LTC staff was associated with subsequent COVID-19 deaths among LTC residents, which motivated a public order to restrict LTC staff from working in more than one LTC home in the first wave. Emerging Ontario evidence on risk factors for LTC home outbreaks and deaths has been incorporated into provincial pandemic surveillance tools. Public health directives now attempt to limit crowding in LTC homes by restricting occupancy to two residents per room. The LTC visitor policy was also revised to designate a maximum of two essential caregivers who can visit residents without time limits, including when a home is experiencing an outbreak. Several further measures could be effective in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks, hospitalizations, and deaths in Ontario’s LTC homes. First, temporary staffing could be minimized by improving staff working conditions. Second, the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in staff could be minimized by measures that reduce the risk of transmission in communities with a high burden of COVID-19. Third, LTC homes could be further decrowded by a continued disallowance of three- and four-resident rooms and additional temporary housing for the most crowded homes. Other important issues include improved prevention and detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection in LTC staff, enhanced infection prevention and control (IPAC) capacity within the LTC homes, a more balanced and nuanced approach to public health measures and IPAC strategies in LTC homes, strategies to promote vaccine acceptance amongst residents and staff, and further improving data collection on LTC homes, residents, staff, visitors and essential caregivers for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Interpretation Comparisons of the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the LTC setting reveal improvement in some but not all epidemiological indicators. Despite this, the second wave is now intensifying within LTC homes and without action we will likely experience a substantial additional loss of life before the widespread administration and time-dependent maximal effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. The predictors of outbreaks, the spread of infection, and deaths in Ontario’s LTC homes are well documented and have remained unchanged between the first and the second wave. Some of the evidence on COVID-19 in Ontario’s LTC homes has been effectively leveraged to support public health interventions and policies. Several further measures, if implemented, have the potential to prevent additional LTC home COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths.
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Beck, Tanya, and Ping Wang. Morphodynamics of barrier-inlet systems in the context of regional sediment management, with case studies from West-Central Florida, USA. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41984.
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The temporal and spatial scales controlling the morphodynamics of barrier-inlet systems are critical components of regional sediment management practice. This paper discusses regional sediment management methods employed at multiple barrier-inlet systems, with case studies from West-Central Florida. A decision-support tool is proposed for regional sediment management with discussion of its application to barrier-inlet systems. Connecting multiple barrier islands and inlets at appropriate spatio-temporal scales is critical in developing an appropriately scoped sediment management plan for a barrier-inlet system. Evaluating sediment bypassing capacity and overall inlet morphodynamics can better inform regional sand sharing along barrier-inlet coastlines; particularly where sediment resources are scarce and a close coupling between inlet dredging and beach placement is vital to long-term sustainable management. Continued sea-level rise and anthropogenic activities may intensify the need for investigating longer-term processes and expanding regional planning at a centennial timescale and are acknowledged as challenging tasks for RSM studies. Specifically, we suggested that a regionally focused, multi-inlet study was necessary for management plan of individual inlet for the west-central Florida case studies. Key recommendations based on the case studies are included.
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Tidd, Alexander N., Richard A. Ayers, Grant P. Course, and Guy R. Pasco. Scottish Inshore Fisheries Integrated Data System (SIFIDS): work package 6 final report development of a pilot relational data resource for the collation and interpretation of inshore fisheries data. Edited by Mark James and Hannah Ladd-Jones. Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15664/10023.23452.
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[Extract from Executive Summary] The competition for space from competing sectors in the coastal waters of Scotland has never been greater and thus there is a growing a need for interactive seascape planning tools that encompass all marine activities. Similarly, the need to gather data to inform decision makers, especially in the fishing industry, has become essential to provide advice on the economic impact on fishing fleets both in terms of alternative conservation measures (e.g. effort limitations, temporal and spatial closures) as well as the overlap with other activities, thereby allowing stakeholders to derive a preferred option. The SIFIDS project was conceived to allow the different relevant data sources to be identified and to allow these data to be collated in one place, rather than as isolated data sets with multiple data owners. The online interactive tool developed as part of the project (Work Package 6) brought together relevant data sets and developed data storage facilities and a user interface to allow various types of user to view and interrogate the data. Some of these data sets were obtained as static layers which could sit as background data e.g. substrate type, UK fishing limits; whilst other data came directly from electronic monitoring systems developed as part of the SIFIDS project. The main non-static data source was Work Package 2, which was collecting data from a sample of volunteer inshore fishing vessels (<12m). This included data on location; time; vessel speed; count, time and position of deployment of strings of creels (or as fleets and pots as they are also known respectively); and a count of how many creels were hauled on these strings. The interactive online tool allowed all the above data to be collated in a specially designed database and displayed in near real time on the web-based application.
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Phillips, Jake. Understanding the impact of inspection on probation. Sheffield Hallam University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7190/shu.hkcij.05.2021.
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This research sought to understand the impact of probation inspection on probation policy, practice and practitioners. This important but neglected area of study has significant ramifications because the Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation has considerable power to influence policy through its inspection regime and research activities. The study utilised a mixed methodological approach comprising observations of inspections and interviews with people who work in probation, the Inspectorate and external stakeholders. In total, 77 people were interviewed or took part in focus groups. Probation practitioners, managers and leaders were interviewed in the weeks after an inspection to find out how they experienced the process of inspection. Staff at HMI Probation were interviewed to understand what inspection is for and how it works. External stakeholders representing people from the voluntary sector, politics and other non-departmental bodies were interviewed to find out how they used the work of inspection in their own roles. Finally, leaders within the National Probation Service and Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service were interviewed to see how inspection impacts on policy more broadly. The data were analysed thematically with five key themes being identified. Overall, participants were positive about the way inspection is carried out in the field of probation. The main findings are: 1. Inspection places a burden on practitioners and organisations. Practitioners talked about the anxiety that a looming inspection created and how management teams created additional pressures which were hard to cope with on top of already high workloads. Staff responsible for managing the inspection and with leadership positions talked about the amount of time the process of inspection took up. Importantly, inspection was seen to take people away from their day jobs and meant other priorities were side-lined, even if temporarily. However, the case interviews that practitioners take part in were seen as incredibly valuable exercises which gave staff the opportunity to reflect on their practice and receive positive feedback and validation for their work. 2. Providers said that the findings and conclusions from inspections were often accurate and, to some extent, unsurprising. However, they sometimes find it difficult to implement recommendations due to reports failing to take context into account. Negative reports have a serious impact on staff morale, especially for CRCs and there was concern about the impact of negative findings on a provider’s reputation. 3. External stakeholders value the work of the Inspectorate. The Inspectorate is seen to generate highly valid and meaningful data which stakeholders can use in their own roles. This can include pushing for policy reform or holding government to account from different perspectives. In particular, thematic inspections were seen to be useful here. 4. The regulatory landscape in probation is complex with an array of actors working to hold providers to account. When compared to other forms of regulation such as audit or contract management the Inspectorate was perceived positively due to its methodological approach as well as the way it reflects the values of probation itself. 5. Overall, the inspectorate appears to garner considerable legitimacy from those it inspects. This should, in theory, support the way it can impact on policy and practice. There are some areas for development here though such as more engagement with service users. While recognising that the Inspectorate has made a concerted effort to do this in the last two years participants all felt that more needs to be done to increase that trust between the inspectorate and service users. Overall, the Inspectorate was seen to be independent and 3 impartial although this belief was less prevalent amongst people in CRCs who argued that the Inspectorate has been biased towards supporting its own arguments around reversing the now failed policy of Transforming Rehabilitation. There was some debate amongst participants about how the Inspectorate could, or should, enforce compliance with its recommendations although most people were happy with the primarily relational way of encouraging compliance with sanctions for non-compliance being considered relatively unnecessary. To conclude, the work of the Inspectorate has a significant impact on probation policy, practice and practitioners. The majority of participants were positive about the process of inspection and the Inspectorate more broadly, notwithstanding some of the issues raised in the findings. There are some developments which the Inspectorate could consider to reduce the burden inspection places on providers and practitioners and enhance its impact such as amending the frequency of inspection, improving the feedback given to practitioners and providing more localised feedback, and working to reduce or limit perceptions of bias amongst people in CRCs. The Inspectorate could also do more to capture the impact it has on providers and practitioners – both positive and negative - through existing procedures that are in place such as post-case interview surveys and tracking the implementation of recommendations.