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Al Worden
No full textBorn in Jackson, Michigan, February 7, 1932. He was the first son of Merrill and Helen Worden, and has three brothers and two sisters. Grew up on a small farm and attended a one room country school until entering high school. Now retired from the US Air Force, NASA and BFGoodrich and living in Vero Beach, Florida and at Thousand Oaks Golf Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has three daughters; Merrill, Alison and Tamara. He is the author of a book of poetry, a children’s book and an autobiography, “Falling To Earth”, that was a best seller.
Academic: Attended primary and secondary schools in Jackson. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1955 in the top 10% of the class. Returned to graduate school at the University of Michigan in 1961, graduating in 1963 with a Masters Degree in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Instrumentation Engineering. Received a Doctor of Science Degree (Honorary) in Astronautical Engineering in 1971 from the University of Michigan, and a Doctor of Laws Degree (Honorary) in 1995 from Northwood University.
Professional:
1951-1955 USMA, West Point, New York
1955-1961 95th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Washington, DC.
1961-1963 University of Michigan graduate school for Aerospace Engineering, as part of the Air Force Civilian Institute Program.
1963-1964 Empire Test Pilot School in Farnborough, England. Graduated 2nd in the class and received the McKenna Trophy.
1964-1966 Instructed at the USAF Aerospace Research Pilots School at Edwards AFB, California. Applied for the NASA Astronaut Program in December 1965.
1966-1972 One of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April, 1966. A member of the support crew for Apollo 9 and a back-up crew member for Apollo 12. Served as Command Module Pilot for Apollo 15 (July 26- August 7, 1971) with Dave Scott and Jim Irwin. Apollo 15 was the fourth manned lunar mission, the first to operate a Scientific Instrument Module in lunar orbit, the first to place a satellite in lunar orbit, the first to carry a lunar rover to the surface of the moon and acknowledged as the most scientifically oriented flight of the Apollo program. On the return to earth, performed a spacewalk (or EVA- Extra Vehicular Activity) to recover film from the Scientific Instrument Module, the first EVA while not in earth orbit. On the flight, logged more than 295 hours flight time and covered a distance of nearly 1.4 million miles.
1972-1975 NASA Ames Research Center, California, Chief, System Studies Division.
1975-1982 Northwood University Staff.
1982 Ran for the United States Congress in the twelfth district of Florida.
1984- 1989 Owned and operated a helicopter sightseeing operation in Orlando, Florida.
1985- 2004 President, Maris Worden Aerospace, Inc., formed with John Maris to develop an Aerodynamic Performance Monitor and Stall Warning System for aircraft.
1990-1993 President, Jet Electronics and Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of BF Goodrich. JET is a manufacturer of avionics products with gross sales of approximately 400,000 a year to worthy students.
2010-2017 Retired. Working on two books for publication in 2019, the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.
Honors and Awards: Numerous awards including the 1972 Collier Trophy, the VandenBerg Trophy, The Kitty Hawk Award, the AIAA Haley Astronautics Award, the UN Peace Medal, Silver Star, Distinguished Service Medal, Order of Leopold, and others.
Represented the President during six European & East European Tours 1971-72.
Activities: Past President, Boys Club of Palm Beach, Florida. Past Director, Adam Walsh Foundationhttps://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2019/1011/thumbnail.jp
Novelty detection in a changing environment: Regression and interpolation approaches
No full textThe technique of novelty detection is now established as a means of performing the lowest level of damage identification. Data are accumulated while the system or structure is operating in normal condition and used to construct a reference model. During subsequent operation of the system, data are compared to the reference and any significant deviations are taken to indicate damage. This approach has potential problems if the system or structure is embedded in a changing environment. If the reference data are only characteristic of a limited range of the environmental parameters, measurements from the system in an undamaged condition but from a different environmental state, may cause the diagnostic to register novelty and thus falsely infer damage. This paper demonstrates a potential solution to the problem via the construction of a reference set parametrized by an environmental variable. Two approaches are considered: regression and interpolation. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.The first author would like to thank Los Alamos National Laboratoryfor financial
support while this studywas carried out
Huygens on translation
No full textThe tercentenary of the death of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) presents a convenient occasion to trace the views held by this versatile and multilingual writer on the subject of translation. A first inventory of Huygens' pronouncements on the matter is all that will be attempted here. The choice of Huygens is not dictated by commemorative considerations alone. Both the contemporary appreciation of his work as a translator ? notably of John Donne ? and the fact that, as in Vondel's case, some of Huygens' comments on translation are echoed and occasionally challenged by other translators, indicate that his approach to the subject is sufficiently central to be treated as a point of reference
Potential of observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer to constrain continental sources of carbon monoxide
No full textWe have conducted an observing system simulation experiment for the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) satellite instrument to determine the potential of nadir retrievals of carbon monoxide (CO) from this instrument to constrain estimates of continental sources of CO. We use the GEOS-CHEM global chemical transport model to produce a pseudoatmosphere in which the relationship between sources and concentrations of CO is known. Linear profile retrievals of CO are calculated by sampling this pseudoatmosphere along the orbit of TES. These retrievals are used as pseudo-observations with a maximum a posteriori inverse algorithm to estimate the CO sources from the different continents. This algorithm accounts for the finite vertical resolution of the retrieval, instrument errors, and representation and transport errors in the GEOS-CHEM simulation of CO. The structure of the transport error is estimated using the statistics of the difference between paired GEOS-CHEM forecasts of CO, and this structure is then scaled to match the model error in the GEOS-CHEM simulation of aircraft observations of Asian outflow over the NW Pacific. We show that with proper characterization of observation errors just 2 weeks of observations from TES have the potential to constrain estimates of continental sources of CO to within 10%
Mediterraan ouder worden: Groepswonen in een kas
No full textIn het vergrijzende Nederland hebben veel ouderen last van eenzaamheid. Ook blijkt uit onderzoek dat ouderen 95% van hun tijd binnenshuis doorbrengen terwijl de buitenlucht juist ontzettend goed is voor de gezondheid. Door actieve ouderen samen te brengen in een groepswoning wordt de drempel tot sociale interactie verlaagd. Daarbij wordt over het gebouw een kas geplaatst waardoor de gezamenlijke binnentuin het gehele jaar bruikbaar is en een duurzaam binnen klimaat ontstaat. Het ontwerp maakt het mogelijk om in Nederland Mediterraan oud te worden: Een groot deel van de dag buiten doorbrengen met vrienden om je heen.Architectural EngineeringArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
A Tapestry of People: The Growth of Population in the Province of the Western Cape
No full textThe best place to begin a study of human settlement is with climate. Most of the Western Cape province - the land lying north of a line running parallel to the southern coast approximately 100 kilometers inland, from Worcester to Uniondale - is too dry for arable farming. And the rain which does fall south of the long range of mountains tends to come in the winter months which is suitable for wheat but not for tropical cereals. Thus when ironworking, Bantu-speaking, people began to move east and then south from the Niger-Congo area in a great wave of migration that began some 2000 years ago they moved into the wetter eastern part of what is now South Africa where there was good grazing for their cattle and where the crops they knew - sorghum, millet and, later maize, - would grow...
Effectiveness of a feedback-based brief intervention for alcohol use disorders in community care
No full textFeedback-based brief interventions for alcohol use have been shown to be highly effective with undergraduate populations. However, there has been little research on their effectiveness with community treatment populations, who typically have higher levels of dependence, comorbidity, and chronicity. The effectiveness of an assessment/ feedback brief intervention to reduce alcohol use versus an assessment only condition with no feedback component was investigated in a community treatment setting with patients (N = 87) characterized by high levels of long-term dependency on alcohol and drugs, high levels of comorbidity, ethnic diversity, and low socioeconomic status. It was hypothesized that randomization to a condition receiving brief individualized feedback would reduce alcohol consumption and increase motivation for substance use treatment, versus randomization to a condition the same assessment but no feedback. Repeated measures ANOVAs and ANCOVAs were used to examine primary outcome variables obtained from the Addiction Severity Index (ASI; McLellan et al., 1992) of drinking quantity and frequency, and motivation for treatment. Results suggested that participants who received the feedback showed substantial reductions in number of drinking days at follow-up 30 days post-intervention (i.e. 30 days from the date of the intake). However participants who received the feedback and those who did not did not differ on other outcomes at follow-up, including days of heavy drinking, motivation for treatment, or drug use frequency. Findings may be influenced by the decision to seek help, assessment reactivity, or treatment effects as on nearly all outcome measures participants in both conditions showed greatly improved outcomes at follow-up.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Blaise L. Worde
Betrachtungen über das gantze Leiden Christi
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Investeren om te reduceren: Een probabilistisch model waarmee het verband tussen de investeringskosten en een overstromingskansreductie kan worden bepaald
No full textIn dit rapport word een nieuw ontwikkelde methode gepresenteerd waarmee overstromingskansen kunnen worden bepaald en aangegeven kan worden wat de zwakke schakels in een dijkring zijn, aangegeven wordt waar verbeteringen mogelijk zijn, zodat de nieuwe methode geintroduceerd kan worden bij een grotere groep gebruikers die (nog) weinig of geen ervaring hebben met de methode. Deze introductie is noodzakelijk omdat de politiek, op basis van de eerder genoemde aanbevelingen van de TAW, in een tijdsbestek van twee jaar vraagt om een landelijk beeld van de overstromingskansen. Hetgeen inhoudt dat in een kort tijdsbestek, grote hoeveelheden overstromingskansberekeningen (voor alle 53 dijkringgebieden) uitgevoerd moeten gaan worden, onvermijdelijk deels door personen die geen of nauwelijks ervaring hebben met de methode. Met behulp van de nieuwe methode (in het vervolg aangeduid als PC_RING) en de resultaten uit het SPRINT onderzoek naar de grootte van de 'actuele' overstromingskansen, kan bepaald worden hoe groot de investeringskosten zouden moeten zijn, om de overstromingskans van een dijkringgebied te reduceren tot een bepaald (maatschappelijk/politiek gewenst) veiligheidsniveau (normstelling). Voor zo'n benadering is het echter noodzakelijk te beschikken over een gevoeligheidsanalyse van de invloed van de verschillende ontwerpparameters op de faalkans van een dijkvak. De huidige versie van PC_RING is op dit moment (nog) niet in staat om op een snelle en efficiente manier deze zogenaamde ontwerpparameter invloeden te bepalen, zodat een beeld van de grootte van de investeringskosten dan ook nog ontbreekt. Doelstellingen (1) Het ontwikkelen van een rekenprocedure waarmee de invloed van investeringskosten van verschillende soorten verbeteringsmaatregelen op de overstromingskans van een dijkringgebied zichtbaar kan worden gemaakt om vervolgens een voorstel te doen om op een optimale manier de overstromingskans van een dijkringgebied te reduceren tot een bepaald veiligheidsniveau. (2) Het ontwikkelen van nieuwe 'informatieverschaffende' modules, in aanvulling op het huidige model PC_RING, zodanig dat de werkbaarheid van het model verbeterd wordt, waardoor het model makkelijker toegankelijk wordt voor gebruikers met (nog) geen of nauwelijks ervaring met de programmatuur.Civil Engineering and Geoscience
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