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Hal S. Currey, oral history interview, 14 July 2009
No full textHal S. Currey was administrator for both the Institute of Psychiatry (IOP) and the Department of Psychiatry in 1989. He begins his interview by describing his initial reaction to hearing that Hurricane Hugo might strike Charleston. He goes on to describe preparing IOP for the storm by discharging patients, assigning hospital staff to shifts, and sending non-essential employees home. Currey describes his experiences during the height of the storm, including watching the windows in his office bow and the shattering of several IOP windows that resulted in destroyed offices. He also details the flooding on President’s Street and the fear that the institute building was going to flood. Currey recalls the days immediately following the storm and describes the recovery efforts at IOP and the MUSC campus.
Additionally, Mr. Currey describes preparing his family for the storm and then returning to his home on Sullivans Island for the first time after landfall. He also describes the destruction on the island
Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand
No full textSeveral high-level committees have concluded that current domestic and global trends are threatening America’s global science and engineering (S&E) preeminence. Of the challenges discussed, few are thought to be as serious as the purported decline in the supply of high quality students from the beginning to the end of the S&E pipeline—a decline brought about by declining emphasis on math and science education, coupled with a supposed declining interest among domestic students in S&E careers.
However, our review of the data fails to find support for those presumptions. Rather, the available data indicate increases in the absolute numbers of secondary school graduates and increases in their math and science performance levels. Domestic and international trends suggest that that U.S. schools show steady improvement in math and science, the U.S. is not at any particular disadvantage compared with most nations, and the supply of S&E-qualified graduates is large and ranks among the best internationally. Further, the number of undergraduates completing S&E studies has grown, and the number of S&E graduates remains high by historical standards.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the meetings of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, October 2006.Originally published by The Urban Institute. Copyright © October 2007 The Urban Institute
The GOAL-to-HAL/S translator specification
No full textThe specification sets forth a technical framework within which to deal with the transfer of specific GOAL features to HAL/S. Key technical features of the translator are described which communicate with the data bank, handle repeat statements, and deal with software interrupts. GOAL programs, databank information, and GOAL system subroutines are integrated into one GOAL in HAL/S. This output is fully compatible HAL/S source ready for insertion into the HAL/S compiler. The Translator uses a PASS1 to establish all the global data needed for the HAL/S output program. Individual GOAL statements are translated in PASS2. The specification document makes extensive use of flowcharts to specify exactly how each variation of each GOAL statement is to be translated. The specification also deals with definitions and assumptions, executive support structure and implementation. An appendix, entitled GOAL-to-HAL Mapping, provides examples of translated GOAL statements
When Firms Restructure: Understanding Work-Life Outcomes
No full textThis chapter appears in: Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural, and Individual Perspectives (2005), E. Kossek, S. Lambert (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.
Organizational structures are commonly neglected in the analysis of work-life balance opportunities (with important exceptions, such as Lambert, Waxman, & Haley-Lock, 2002). These factors, often in the background, interact with the more typically identified factors such as attributes of individual workers and the work-life policies and strategies adopted by a firm and its managers. Our on- going research examines the interrelationship among structural changes in industries and firms, managerial strategy, and jobs. We focus on internal labor markets and implications for the quality of jobs, particularly the changes in lower-skill and lower-wage jobs, and for opportunity or mobility. In this chapter, we extend that framework to consider implications for work-life integration opportunities as well
HAL/S programmer's guide
No full textThis programming language was developed for the flight software of the NASA space shuttle program. HAL/S is intended to satisfy virtually all of the flight software requirements of the space shuttle. To achieve this, HAL/s incorporates a wide range of features, including applications-oriented data types and organizations, real time control mechanisms, and constructs for systems programming tasks. As the name indicates, HAL/S is a dialect of the original HAL language previously developed. Changes have been incorporated to simplify syntax, curb excessive generality, or facilitate flight code emission
HAL/S programmer's guide
No full textHAL/S is a programming language developed to satisfy the flight software requirements for the space shuttle program. The user's guide explains pertinent language operating procedures and described the various HAL/S facilities for manipulating integer, scalar, vector, and matrix data types
S-HAL : safety handbook for locals.
No full text4th ed.PDFTech ReportHandbooksTraffic safetySafety managementForecastingLocal transportationAccident dataTraffic accidentsTraffic dataPerformance measurementMissouriMissouri. Dept. of TransportationUniversity of Missouri--Columbia. Dept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringMid-America Transportation CenterUS Transportation CollectionThe Safety Handbook for Locals (S-HAL) is intended to be a comprehensivetraffic safety resource for all local communities in Missouri, be it cities orcounties. The S-HAL mirrors the national Highway Safety Manual (HSM)(AASHTO, 2010) in using a systematic and data-driven approach toimproving traffic safety. The HSM is expected to significantly influence local policy andengineering practice, in the same way that the Highway Capacity Manual transformedtraffic impact analysis for planning and site development. It is important that the S-HAL is consistent with the principles and techniques promoted in the HSM, whichwas developed using a wealth of national highway safety knowledge and experience;the S-HAL takes advantage of the same wellspring of knowledge. The HSM is dividedinto four major parts. Part A discusses fundamentals of traffic safety, including humanfactors. Part B presents the safety management process, namely, network screening,diagnosis, countermeasure design, economic appraisal, project prioritization, and safetyeffectiveness evaluation. Part C describes predictive methods for rural highways, andurban and suburban arterials. Part D lists crash modification factors for a wide range oftransportation facilities and treatments. The S-HAL covers the same topics as the HSMbut not in as much detail. Also, the S-HAL focuses on facilities that are of moreinterest to local communities; thus freeway and expressway facilities are not covered inthe S-HAL. Even though the types of topics covered in the HSM and the S-HAL aresimilar, the S-HAL is organized into seven chapters instead of four parts. Topicscovered in the S-HAL include establishing a traffic records system, screening forproblem locations, analyzing conflict and crash patterns, designing safetyimprovements, conducting road safety audits, and accessing national and regionalsafety resources. The S-HAL can be considered a gateway to HSM, since it introducesreaders to the theory and techniques presented in the HSM
HAL/S language specification. Version IR-542
No full textThe formal HAL/S language specification is documented with particular referral to the essentials of HAL/S syntax and semantics. The language is intended to satisfy virtually all of the flight software requirements of NASA programs. To achieve this, HAL/S incorporates a wide range of features, including applications oriented data types and organizations, real time control mechanisms, and constructs for systems programming tasks
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Santucci: MATAWS: A Multimodal Approach for Automatic WS Semantic Annotation, S. Fong et al
No full textHAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
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