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Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot Heart Rates and Metabolic Rates during second EVA
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Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot Heart Rates and Metabolic Rates during first EVA
No full textApollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot Heart Rates and Metabolic Rates during the first EVA reflected in a graph
Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot Heart Rates and Metabolic Rates during third EVA
No full textApollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot Heart Rates and Metabolic Rates during third EVA reflected in a graph
Understanding pilot biodynamical feedthrough coupling in helicopter adverse roll axis instability via lateral cyclic feedback control
No full textThe authors thank Joost Venrooij, Project Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, for providing the experimental results obtained on SIMONA flight simulator (TU Delft).The paper reassesses the mechanism of biodynamical feedthrough coupling to helicopter body motion in lateral-roll helicopter tasks. An analytical bio-aeroelastic pilot–vehicle model is first developed and tested for various pilot's neuromuscular adaptions in the lateral/roll axis helicopter tasks. The results demonstrate that pilot can destabilize the low-frequency regressing lead-lag rotor mode; however he/she is destabilizing also the high-frequency advancing lag rotor mode. The mechanism of pilot destabilization involves three vicious energy circles, i.e. lateral-roll, flap-roll and flap-lag motions, in a very similar manner as in the air resonance phenomenon. For both modes, the destabilization is very sensitive to an increase of the steady state rotor coning angle that increases the energy transfers from flap to lag motion through Coriolis forces. The analytical linear time-invariant model developed in this paper can be also used to investigate designs proneness to lateral/roll aeroelastic rotorcraft–pilot couplings.This work was supported by the “Complex Mechanical Systems Dynamics” Chair – Airbus Group Foundation and the engineering school Arts et Metiers Paristech
Pilot Projects in Water Management
No full textPilot projects appear in many forms in policy making and management. In an effort to understand the nature and use of pilot projects and improve their effectiveness, we undertake a practice-based and theoretical study of the pilot project phenomenon. First, we examine the roles assigned to pilot projects in the policy development literature and explore their use in a Dutch water innovation platform. Second, we determine characteristics of pilot projects to deepen insights into the nature of the pilot project phenomenon and the dimensions useful in the design of pilot projects. Third, we identify three pilot types and nine ways to use a pilot project and we develop a Pilot Project Nonagon that can be used to assess pilot projects’ uses and to compare stakeholders’ perspectives on these uses. Fourth, we identify hurdles to diffusion of the knowledge developed from pilot projects and suggest strategies to overcome these. Lastly, we formulate a research agenda aimed at addressing the identified knowledge gaps.Multi Actor SystemsTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Supporting independence? : evaluation of the teenage parent supported housing pilot : final report
No full textThe Teenage Parent Supported Housing (TPSH) pilot involved seven local authorities providing ‘enhanced support packages’ for teenage parents, with a particular emphasis on those aged 16 and 17 and those not living with parents/carers (including those living in their own homes or supported housing). The pilot projects were operational from early 2009 to March 2011. Research was commissioned to evaluate the TPSH pilot, the aims of which were to assess the effectiveness of enhanced support packages in terms of the impact on outcomes for teenage parents (mothers and, insofar as possible, fathers) and their children; provide greater understanding of what the key components of an enhanced support package should look like; and, assess the cost effectiveness/value for money of each pilot authority’s enhanced support package delivery model. The evaluation employed a multi-method approach and involved: analysis of project-level monitoring and costs data; interviews with project co-ordinators and service providers; focus groups with service users; a longitudinal survey of service users; and telephone interviews with the parents/carers of service users. It also compared pilot outcomes with outcomes recorded for other teenage parents accessing alternative services recorded via the Supporting People database
Translation and Cross-cultural Validation of the Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning Questionnaire
No full textBibliographical ldentification Author's first name and surname: Eva Prokešová Title of the Master's thesis: Translation and cross-cultural validation of the Individua! Zones ofOptimal Functioning Questionnaire Supervisor: PhDr. Eva Tomešová, PhD Year of the defence: 2008 Abstract: The main aim of the present study was a translation of the Individua! Zones of Optimal Functioning questionnaire (IZOF), and an intercultural validation ofthe Czech version. The IZOF model is a reputable method in the field of sport psychology. This model stresses the importance of both pleasant and unpleasant emotions on an athlete's successful and unsuccessful performance pattems. The main purpose of IZOF is to describe, predict, better understand, and explain the dynamics of the emotion- performance relationship. The Czech version of IZOF was designed in cooperation with sportmen as translators, using results from qualitative research requesting atletes to describe emotions experienced prior to and during their performance (N = 156); existing emotion and affect scales in Czech (especially POMS and CSAI-II) were also analysed. The first Czech version of the IZOF questionnaire was analysed in a pilot study using protocol analysis and the final version was created with the cooperation of experts from the field ofsport psychology...
Translation and Cross-cultural Validation of the Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning Questionnaire
No full textBibliographical ldentification Author's first name and surname: Eva Prokešová Title of the Master's thesis: Translation and cross-cultural validation of the Individua! Zones ofOptimal Functioning Questionnaire Supervisor: PhDr. Eva Tomešová, PhD Year of the defence: 2008 Abstract: The main aim of the present study was a translation of the Individua! Zones of Optimal Functioning questionnaire (IZOF), and an intercultural validation ofthe Czech version. The IZOF model is a reputable method in the field of sport psychology. This model stresses the importance of both pleasant and unpleasant emotions on an athlete's successful and unsuccessful performance pattems. The main purpose of IZOF is to describe, predict, better understand, and explain the dynamics of the emotion- performance relationship. The Czech version of IZOF was designed in cooperation with sportmen as translators, using results from qualitative research requesting atletes to describe emotions experienced prior to and during their performance (N = 156); existing emotion and affect scales in Czech (especially POMS and CSAI-II) were also analysed. The first Czech version of the IZOF questionnaire was analysed in a pilot study using protocol analysis and the final version was created with the cooperation of experts from the field ofsport psychology...
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
'Aussiedler als Deutsche' oder 'neue deutsche Minoritäten'?
No full textZick A, Six B. 'Aussiedler als Deutsche' oder 'neue deutsche Minoritäten'?. Kassel: Projektgruppe EVA-A. Erfolg und Verlauf der Aneignung neuer Umwelten durch Aussiedler. Phase I: Pilot-Studie; 1991
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