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Business Papers (MS 80-0003)
No full textLetter from Norman G. Kittrell, Jr. to F. A. Williams enclosing a signed tenancy regarding the property Mr. Dan Rafferty is living on
Community Participation in Planning (CPiP)-Participatory Skills Framework
No full text2 Community Participation in Planning (CPiP) was a two year collaborative project involving Ulster University (UK), Community Places (UK), the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). CPiP was funded through the European Union's (EU) Erasmus+ programme, supporting education and training activities in order to foster quality improvements and innovation across a range of sectors. The information and opinions expressed in this report have been compiled by the authors in good faith and informed by the active participation in, and reflections from, the CPiP project. All opinions contained in this report constitute the judgment of the authors at the date of publication and are subject to change. This report is intended to provide an overview of the project and the presentation of the project's skills framework. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive statement on community participation in planning and does not necessarily reflect the views of the academic partners, local partnering organisations, the Erasmus+ programme or the European Union. "The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Combining social network analysis and the NATO Approach Space to define agility. Topic 2: networks and networking
No full textThis paper takes the NATO SAS-050 Approach Space, a widely accepted model of command and control, and gives each of its primary axes a quantitative measure using social network analysis. This means that the actual point in the approach space adopted by real-life command and control organizations can be plotted along with the way in which that point varies over time and function. Part 1 of the paper presents the rationale behind this innovation and how it was subject to verification using theoretical data. Part 2 shows how the enhanced approach space was put to use in the context of a large scale military command post exercise. Agility is represented by the number of distinct areas in the approach space that the organization was able to occupy and there was a marked disparity between where the organization thought it should be and where it actually was, furthermore, agility varied across function. The humans in this particular scenario bestowed upon the organization the levels of agility that were observed, thus the findings are properly considered from a socio-technical perspective
Control of the respiratory cycle in conscious humans
No full text Rafferty, G. F., and W. N. Gardner. Control of the respiratory cycle in conscious humans. J. Appl. Physiol. 81(4): 1744–1753, 1996.—We studied in conscious humans the relative strength of mechanisms controlling timing and drive components of the respiratory cycle around their resting set points. A system of auditory feedback with end-tidal[Formula: see text] held constant in mild hyperoxia via an open circuit was used to induce subjects independently to change inspiratory time (Ti) and tidal volume (Vt I) over a wide range above and below the resting values for every breath for up to 1 h. Four protocols were studied in various levels of hypercapnia (1–5% inspired CO2). We found that Ti (and expiratory time) could be changed over a wide range (1.17–2.86 s, P < 0.01 for Ti) and Vt Iincreased by ≥500 ml ( P < 0.01) without difficulty. However, in no protocol was it possible to decrease Vt I below the free-breathing resting value in response to reduction of auditory feedback thresholds by up to 600 ml. This applied at all levels of chemical drive studied, with resting Vt I values varying from 1.06 to 1.74 liters. When reduction in Vt I was forced by the more “programmed” procedure of isocapnic panting, end-expiratory volume was sacrificed to ensure that peak tidal volume reached a fixed absolute lung volume. These results suggest that the imperative for control of resting breathing is to prevent reduction of Vt I below the level dictated by the prevailing chemical drive, presumably to sustain metabolic requirements of the body, whereas respiratory timing is weakly controlled consistent with the needs for speech and other nonmetabolic functions of breathing. </jats:p
Interaction of spontaneous respiration with conventional and patient triggered of ventilation
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Developing guidelines for distributed teamwork: review of the literature and the HFI DTC’s distributed teamwork studies
No full textDistributed teams are increasingly being employed within complex systems and rapid technological advances are affecting the ways in which they work and can potentially work. Despite this, guidance on how distributed teams should work, how they should be organised and trained, what communications technology they should use and how support systems should be designed is not readily available. This report presents, based on a review of the relevant literature and also a series of naturalistic case studies undertaken previously by the HFI DTC, a series of initial guidelines on how teams, systems, technology and procedures should be designed and organised in order to enhance distributed team working performanc
Whistle mouth pressure, as a measure of expiratory muscle strength in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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