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A war game can be defined as a realistic representation of inputs and outcomes in line with real world situations in a military environment. The Center for Army Analysis runs a war game simulation in order to gain insights and analyze counterinsurgency operations for higher level military commanders. The war gaming process is designed to develop a methodology that allows for the analysis of counterinsurgency...
The Department of Energy seeks to modernize the U.S. electric grid through the SmartGrid initiative, which includes the use of Global Positioning System (GPS)-timing dependent electric phasor measurement units (PMUs) for continual monitoring and automated controls. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is concerned with the associated risks of increased utilization of GPS timing in the electricity...
Intelligence gathering is a critical component of military operations. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become an increasingly useful tool due to their surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. However, the use of many of these vehicles is limited to outdoor environments because of their size and reliance on Global Positioning Satellites (GPS). Knowledge of indoor environments is important...
Despite new prosthetic heart valves entering the market, prosthetic heart valves still do not come close to mimicking our natural heart valves. As important as it is to design new prosthetic heart valves, just as important is the need for appropriate performance metrics to evaluate prosthetic heart valves. This paper is focused on addressing this concern by proposing a novel metric of prosthetic heart...
Teens who have viewed alcohol-related content on social networking sites are more likely to have consumed alcohol than teens that have not seen such content. This suggests a rising concern about the influence of these sites on adolescent drinking behavior. Parents, health organizations, and school administrators need a deeper understanding of online promotional patterns in order to combat risky behaviors...
The focus of this project is to facilitate program evaluation by creating a database that captures data about incidents, offenders, and offenses across the entire criminal justice system, while complying with national justice information sharing standards and maintaining individual stakeholders' legacy data systems. Current systems support individual functions and were not designed for cross-functional...
While Matatu minibuses in Nairobi, Kenya are an important part of the urban transportation system, they significantly contribute to congestion, air pollution, and can be unsafe. Matatus are part of the paratransit (i.e. not fully public transit, and often utilizes smaller vehicles that are privately owned) system in Nairobi, providing service to millions of people. Despite their prominence, there...
Army Aviation utilizes two distinct types of overhaul maintenance schedules on its rotary wing aircraft, Phase Maintenance and Progressive Phase Maintenance. All but one aircraft, the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, use Phase Maintenance. This aircraft has both the highest operational readiness rate and average flight hours in the Army's rotary wing fleet. The Army values uniformity in maintenance procedures...
The goal of the Development Clearinghouse (DevClear) is to facilitate social networking between stakeholders in development assistance. These stakeholders include communities in need of essential human services (EHS), non-governmental organizations (NGO) that provide development assistance to communities, and funding agencies (FA) that provide financial, and other support for development assistance...
Efficient and effective communication processes are critical for patient health and safety. Communication processes for patient admission within the UVa Surgical and Trauma Intensive Care Unit (SICU) vary depending on situational factors. Trauma personnel in the SICU are also involved in patient admission to the Operating Room (OR). In order to better understand communication patterns and identify...
United States consumption of fossil fuels has been increasing at a rate of 8.4% since 1990 and is expected to grow by 28% from 2011 to 2040. Executive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance, sets sustainability goals for federal agencies to reduce dependency on fossil fuels and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The Federal Aviation Administration has over...
The water quality of the Susquehanna River, a major freshwater tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, significantly affects the aquatic health of the Bay. Following major storms in which the river flow rate exceeds 300,000 cubic feet per second (cfs), nutrients and sediment stored in the Lower Susquehanna Reservoir are deposited into the Chesapeake Bay. These excess nutrients facilitate algae blooms that...
The United States Army uses war games to better understand the outcome of military maneuvers before formal executed. These war games seldom include the use of non-kinetic tactics and counterinsurgency doctrine. Thus, they limit viable courses of action that can be taken in support of regional stability. This study uses a regression model to model the integration of non-kinetic actions into a war game...
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The municipal solid waste collected from Chatham-Kent is currently disposed to the Ridge Landfill in Blenheim, Ontario. Although the municipality implements recycling, the program does not include separate collection and processing of organic food waste. This paper presents an economic evaluation of composting alternatives for the organic food waste collected from households in Chatham-Kent. A cost-benefit...
This paper examines the existing construction waste management program in the Region of Waterloo to identify strategies for increasing waste diversion rates. The construction industry is a major economic driver in the Province of Ontario but it is also one of the largest contributors to landfill usage. The industry generates a large amount of solid waste, of which only a small fraction is recycled...
Videology is an online video ad serving company. For Videology, browser cookies are an important tool that allows them to gather information about users in order to better target advertisements to relevant consumers. However, Videology is concerned that increased disabling or deletion of cookies by internet users will adversely affect their ability to accurately identify user demographics and therefore...
The focus of this quality improvement project was to identify possible improvements to the nursing documentation process at a large academic medical center by developing an understanding of the root causes of electronic medical records documentation inefficiencies, as decreasing the amount of time spent on documentation would allow for increased nurse interaction time with patients. The root cause...
Missions outside of Earth's magnetic field are impeded by the presence of radiation from galactic cosmic rays and solar particle events. To overcome this issue, NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Radiation Works Storm Shelter Team (RadWorks) has been testing different radiation protective habitats to shield against the onset of solar particle event radiation. These habitats have the capability of...
Class-8 tractor-trailers consume about 75% of the total fuel used by trucks which, combined with Class-7 tractor-trailers, equates to 11.3% of total oil. This high of fuel usage presents an economic problem for companies, an environmental concern as CO2 emissions are released, a societal issue as these tractor-trailers transports all sorts of goods, and a technical challenge for improvement of its...
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