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Usda-Aphis-Wildlife Services’ Involvement At Airports During Fy 1999 (Poster), Jessica Dewey Aug 2000

Usda-Aphis-Wildlife Services’ Involvement At Airports During Fy 1999 (Poster), Jessica Dewey

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

Birds and other wildlife are a serious problem at U.S. airports. Wildlife strikes cost U.S. civil aviation over $300 million per year, based on data from 1990-1998, and the number of reported bird strikes to civil aircraft has increased over 104% during that same time period. The increase in aircraft striking wildlife is due in part to the significant increase of various wildlife populations during the past 30 years. The United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services (WS) program provides Federal assistance to airports in addressing wildlife hazards to aircraft. To comply with the …

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Use Of Radar Systems At Commercial Airports For Bird Strike Hazard Identification, Ron Merritt, T. Adam Kelly Aug 2000

Use Of Radar Systems At Commercial Airports For Bird Strike Hazard Identification, Ron Merritt, T. Adam Kelly

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

Radars have commonly been used for bird detection since the late 1940s. More sophisticated methodologies have been developed over the past 15 years in an effort to provide advisories to pilots flying high-speed, low-level operations. More recently, radars have been used to identify and track bird movements around airports and bombing ranges to develop risk models for bird avoidance. We investigated various radar systems for detecting potentially hazardous bird movements on and in the vicinity of New Orleans International Airport. The systems were used to determine their potential in providing information for development of management strategies, active bird control efforts, …

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Could Falcon Effigy Kites Increase The Efficacy Of Falconry I.P.M.?, Thomas N. Stephan Aug 2000

Could Falcon Effigy Kites Increase The Efficacy Of Falconry I.P.M.?, Thomas N. Stephan

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

When falconry is employed at airfields, not all birds can be induced to leave. Most do, but some do not go far, then return soon after the patrolling falconer drives away. There is evidence that falcon silhouettes cause fear responses in passerines, some corvids and waterfowl. Dr. Conrad Lorenz towed a silhouette of a goose over young fowl with little response. When the same silhouette was towed in a reverse direction, these same chicks exhibited fear response. Falcon decals are placed on windowpanes to prevent wild birds from colliding into them. Dr. Jeffrey R. Jenkins D.V.M. indicated that since the …

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Proceedings Of 2nd Bird Strike Committee Usa/Canada Annual Meeting Aug 2000

Proceedings Of 2nd Bird Strike Committee Usa/Canada Annual Meeting

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

Proceedings of 2nd Bird Strike Committee USA/Canada Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Development Of A Bird Avoidance Model For Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, Edward Zakrajsek, John Bissonette, Tricia Cutler Aug 2000

Development Of A Bird Avoidance Model For Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, Edward Zakrajsek, John Bissonette, Tricia Cutler

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

Two weeks after the Elmendorf AFB-AWACS crash (22 September 1995), the US Navy lost an F-18 Hornet to a birdstrike at Naval Air Facility El Centro (NAFEC) in southern California. NAFEC is surrounded by agricultural land where crops are grown year round, and its location just 26-km south of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge suggests a very high probability of additional serious birdstrikes in the future. We are developing a computer-based Bird-Avoidance Model for the airfield and its two associated bombing ranges, to decrease the number of damaging birdstrikes. We are currently conducting bird counts to assess the distribution …

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Faa Perspective On Future Directions Of Research And Development To Reduce The Bird Strike Threat, Michel J. Hovan, William J. Hughes Aug 2000

Faa Perspective On Future Directions Of Research And Development To Reduce The Bird Strike Threat, Michel J. Hovan, William J. Hughes

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

As bird strike risks keep increasing, the FAA is actively sponsoring research to minimize these risks. Bird strike risk reduction falls under the area of wildlife mitigation research. In this endeavor, FAA Research and Development faces challenges of budgetary and technical nature. From the budgetary standpoint, R&D funds were until recently very limited and the FAA could not carry out a comprehensive program in this area. Although still under funded, the wildlife mitigation R&D allocation has steadily improved and plans can now be made for the future. At the technical level, the areas of research for bird strike risks reductions …

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Preliminary Results From Satellite And Vhf Tracking Of Relocated Red-Tailed Hawks At O’Hare International Airport, Laurence M. Schafer Aug 2000

Preliminary Results From Satellite And Vhf Tracking Of Relocated Red-Tailed Hawks At O’Hare International Airport, Laurence M. Schafer

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

Wildlife Services’ (WS) activities at O’Hare International Airport (ORD), 1997-1999, significantly reduced the annual number of wildlife strikes reported for ORD. The average annual number of reported strikes decreased from 104.2 (1992-1996) to 49 (1997-1999). However, the number of strikes involving red-tailed hawks (RTHA, Buteo jamaicensis) and American kestrels (AMKE, Falco sparverius) did not change (14.6 per year). On 1 January 1999, the Federal Aviation Administration sponsored a two-year study, in conjunction with the National Wildlife Research Center and WS-Illinois, to evaluate the efficacy of raptor relocation at ORD. All relocated RTHA were to be fitted with both …

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Reducing The Presence Of Raptors At Kansas City International Airport, Robert Johnson, Dan Mcmurtry Aug 2000

Reducing The Presence Of Raptors At Kansas City International Airport, Robert Johnson, Dan Mcmurtry

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

Nationwide, between 1991 and 1997, the FAA wildlife strike database reported 939 raptor strikes, which accounted for 12% of all reported wildlife strikes. At Kansas City International Airport (MCI), between 1997 and 1999, 9 raptor strikes occurred involving known aircraft and 27 raptor strikes occurred involving unknown aircraft. These raptor strikes represented 13% of all wildlife strike events at MCI. MCI has a large yearly influx of raptors (red-tailed hawks, American kestrels, northern harriers, and great horned owls) during the period of October through March. From October 1997 until December 1999, 40 raptors were removed from the airport through the …

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Management Of Rodent Populations At Airports, Jessica Dewey, Gary W. Witmer Aug 2000

Management Of Rodent Populations At Airports, Jessica Dewey, Gary W. Witmer

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

Birds and other wildlife are a serious problem at U.S. airports. Certain species are more hazardous to aviation safety than others, most often due to the size and behavior of the species. Raptors, including hawks, vultures, and eagles, were the fourth most common bird group reported in bird strikes to the Federal Aviation Administration from 1991 - 1997, and hawks specifically were the fifth most common bird species group reported in bird strikes in Canada during the same time period. Red-tailed hawks were the fifth most common bird species reported in U.S. Air Force bird strikes from 1985 - 1999, …

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Resolving Bird/Aircraft Hazards At Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, John L. Cummings, John Turman, Brian V. Archuleta Aug 2000

Resolving Bird/Aircraft Hazards At Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, John L. Cummings, John Turman, Brian V. Archuleta

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

Birds present a direct hazard to aviation safety at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California. We monitored the bird hazards at NASNI between April 1996 and April 1997, made recommendations to resolve the bird hazard to aircraft and evaluated WS Operational program at NASNI. We documented 27 bird/aircraft strikes on NASNI from April 1991 to April 1997. Of these, western gulls represented 77%, mallards 9%, American coots 4.5% and great blue herons 4.5%. Most strikes that occurred between March and September were attributed to western gulls, where as waterfowl were struck most often between October and February. The …

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Defining And Reducing Wildlife Hazards To Aviation In The Usa, Richard A. Dolbeer, Scott C. Barras, Bradley F. Blackwell, Thomas W, Seamans, Sandra E. Wright, Edward C. Cleary Aug 2000

Defining And Reducing Wildlife Hazards To Aviation In The Usa, Richard A. Dolbeer, Scott C. Barras, Bradley F. Blackwell, Thomas W, Seamans, Sandra E. Wright, Edward C. Cleary

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 2nd (2000)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC), through an interagency agreement with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), conducts a national research program to define and reduce bird and other wildlife hazards to aircraft. The goal is to provide the FAA and airports nationwide with a scientific foundation for policies and recommendations related to wildlife and aviation safety. Research tasks conducted by NWRC under the agreement include: 1) investigations of habitat management and land-use practices on and near airports to reduce bird activity; 2) development and evaluation of bird repellent and frightening methods for airports; 3) management …

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08/07/2000 - Eiu Students Receive Distinguished Grad Student Awards, University Marketing And Communications Aug 2000

08/07/2000 - Eiu Students Receive Distinguished Grad Student Awards, University Marketing And Communications

2000

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The Statesman, V. 44, I. 32, State University Of New York At Stony Brook Aug 2000

The Statesman, V. 44, I. 32, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 44, i. 32

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Monitor Newsletter August 07, 2000, Bowling Green State University Aug 2000

Monitor Newsletter August 07, 2000, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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Senior Administrator At Ud To Take On New Leadership Role At Chaminade University Of Honolulu Aug 2000

Senior Administrator At Ud To Take On New Leadership Role At Chaminade University Of Honolulu

News Releases

News release announces that Brother Bernard J. Ploeger, S.M., has been named Chaminade University's executive vice president and provost.

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Inflation After Preheating, Gary Felder, Lev Kofman, Andrei Linde, Igor Tkachev Aug 2000

Inflation After Preheating, Gary Felder, Lev Kofman, Andrei Linde, Igor Tkachev

Physics: Faculty Publications

Preheating after inflation may lead to non-thermal phase transitions with symmetry restoration. These phase transitions may occur even if the total energy density of fluctuations produced during reheating is relatively small as compared with the vacuum energy in the state with restored symmetry. As a result, in some inflationary models one encounters a secondary, non-thermal stage of inflation due to symmetry restoration after preheating. We review the theory of non-thermal phase transitions and make a prediction about the expansion factor during the secondary inflationary stage. We then present the results of lattice simulations which verify these predictions, and discuss possible …

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August 7, 2000 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Aug 2000

August 7, 2000 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Manpower Planning In Hong Kong, Anthony Cheng Aug 2000

Manpower Planning In Hong Kong, Anthony Cheng

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

1. VTC has been using the Manpower Requirement Approach (MRA) for projecting disaggregate sectoral employment by skill/occupational group. The whole exercise comprises isolated studies of the 25 economic sectors based on employers’ perception of possible trends. 2. Labour Market Analysis (LMA) differs from MRA in terms of both focus and data requirements. LMA focuses on information from all players in the labour market, uses primary as well as other available secondary data, and analyzes data using also econometric models. 3. For consistency, the Task Force has conceptualized an LMA framework, outlined as: Level One Aggregate Economic Level. Level Two Aggregate …

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Graph Theory, Job-Labour System And Manpower Planning, Kwai Wing Leung Aug 2000

Graph Theory, Job-Labour System And Manpower Planning, Kwai Wing Leung

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

People working in a community can be grouped into clusters of varying education/training background. Flowing of workers between groups is evident, with movement starting from birth and ending to death. Graph theory is applied to denote the system. Analogy to an electric circuit is referred for quick over-viewing and solution. Figures for manpower planning are predicted.

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Thirsty Horses And Public Waterholes, Joyce Marie Turnbull Aug 2000

Thirsty Horses And Public Waterholes, Joyce Marie Turnbull

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This paper deals with the challenges for vocational education and training administrators in the Northern Territory of Australia to respond to calls for action to address apparently opposing needs and forces. Issues considered include the incongruity of development theory and globalisation theory in the context of the Australian outback; the provision of effective training and employment programs to a largely traditional Indigenous population in remote Northern Territory communities; the clash between strategic planning in governmental and organisational contexts and the transmitted Indigenous world picture; the ambiguity of training for employment or the establishment of an enterprise culture in the remote …

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A New Model For Workforce Development: University Of Nevada Las Vegas Educator Externship Program, Sterling Saddler, Gina M. Toth, Lisa M. Bybee Aug 2000

A New Model For Workforce Development: University Of Nevada Las Vegas Educator Externship Program, Sterling Saddler, Gina M. Toth, Lisa M. Bybee

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Educators and future educators must be a part of the continual career awareness and experience process of students and future students. Teachers need to know how their subjects can add to the employability of their students. This program provides a vehicle for school curriculum to be developed and implemented in all academic disciplines.

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Using Quality Indicators To Create World Class Curricula: From Concept To Application, Timo Luopajarvi, Paivi Sutinen Aug 2000

Using Quality Indicators To Create World Class Curricula: From Concept To Application, Timo Luopajarvi, Paivi Sutinen

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

In this paper, Curriculum Quality Indicators (CQIs) are described including what they are, how they are developed, and how they can be used to help create curricula that meet world class employers’ needs. The world class workplace is presented as a frame of reference for curriculum quality. Next, details about how a set of CQIs was developed is described. The application of CQIs to a comprehensive curriculum project at Helsinki Polytechnic in Finland is the detailed. Several implications are offered for CQI use in vocational higher education curriculum development.

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A Perception Of The Software Process Model, Albert H. S. Scott Aug 2000

A Perception Of The Software Process Model, Albert H. S. Scott

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

A student's perception of a software development process model appears to be a series of milestones when documentation is produced to satisfy academic requirements. Certain academic and industrial practices may influence students to place more emphasis on the software product than the process model. The proposal presented is to establish a more structured approach to project supervision to ensure a student performs quality planning, which includes the identification of appropriate software product quality attributes. Such an approach may ensure that sufficient attention is given to the software development process model to ensure that desired software product quality attributes are achieved.

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Design Of Internet-Related Courses For It Professionals, Y.K. Choi Aug 2000

Design Of Internet-Related Courses For It Professionals, Y.K. Choi

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

With the emergence of E-commerce, the Internet-related activities have been escalated for the past two years in Hong Kong. As a result of this, there is an increasing demand on the IT professionals who are able to design, develop, and support the Web businesses. However, there are a few professional courses available in these areas to re-train the existing IT professionals. Although, e-commerce or related programmes are being offered by universities in Hong Kong, it needs to take a couple of years before the graduates are released to the market. There is an immediate need to design and offer related …

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Teaching Statistical Problem Solving In Vocational Education, Wing Kin, Ken Li Aug 2000

Teaching Statistical Problem Solving In Vocational Education, Wing Kin, Ken Li

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

As our society is moving towards information economy, vocational education programs should equip students with the skill able to search, use and analyse information. Although the rapid and continuous development of information technology can ease the computational burden of data analysis, statistical analysis of data is not a simple task that acquires statistical practitioners having specific knowledge and skills to deal with statistical problems. Education of statistical practitioners is specifically concerned with preparation for improving performance in applications of statistics in industries such as finance, manufacturing, etc.. This advocates learning problem solving skills which require practice in thinking about, implementing …

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Telling Stories In The Use Of Portfolio Assessment In Higher Education: Some Implementation Issues, Annie Y.W Nicholson, Sharon Bryant, Judy W.F. Ng Aug 2000

Telling Stories In The Use Of Portfolio Assessment In Higher Education: Some Implementation Issues, Annie Y.W Nicholson, Sharon Bryant, Judy W.F. Ng

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Evidence has shown that the results of traditional standardized tests characterized by pencil and paper formats, multiple-choice responses and time-restricted completion are not sufficient in telling how pupils engage in the learning process and their progress in learning. In addition, these tests tend to emphasize on the assessment of basic skills but fail to measure higher level thinking and problem solving skills. This inadequacy can be addressed by incorporating authentic assessment approaches such as performance tasks, portfolios, and grading for team effort. This paper aims to tell stories from an action learning research group whose members have used ‘portfolio’ as …

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Discovery Learning Approach To Classic Electrical Machines Principles, S.K. Wong, K.F. Chan, David T.W. Chan Aug 2000

Discovery Learning Approach To Classic Electrical Machines Principles, S.K. Wong, K.F. Chan, David T.W. Chan

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This paper aims at presenting the concept of Socratic interactions and discovery learning of classic electrical machines principles. The theories of electrical machines are by nature quite boring and abstract although there are a lot of experiments supported the theories. Traditional, students learnt the subject by drill and practice approach with standard textbooks. In the past two decades, computer is no doubt recognized to be the educational tool. The so-called “interactive” approach is applied to the learning process. Most of this approach applied to various subjects in different levels is mainly based on drill and practice. However, few packages are …

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Teaching Evaluation: A Complicated Issue, Z. Lin, K.H. Chan, Q. Xue Aug 2000

Teaching Evaluation: A Complicated Issue, Z. Lin, K.H. Chan, Q. Xue

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

To justify/quantify/qualify on teaching evaluation may be difficult and not objective as there are so much variables. Comparing teaching evaluations obtained by individual lecturer may not be meaningful, as each staff facing independent course with different students, course and other variables (or statistically, each is an independent event and a single mean value must not be compared directly with another).

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A Study Of Relation Between Assessment Dimension And Management Outcomes: A Sample Of Sinyi Real-Estate Company, Stanley Tsan-Ying Lin Aug 2000

A Study Of Relation Between Assessment Dimension And Management Outcomes: A Sample Of Sinyi Real-Estate Company, Stanley Tsan-Ying Lin

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This study explored the relational grade of Assessment Dimension and Management Outcomes with Grey System Analysis. The candidates were promoted to be a chief of chain store over half years after they had finished the process of assessment center. The results show P&O and A&J dimensions were the most relation with management outcomes. And the quality index is the advance sub-factor of analysis. The different initial value normalization may influent the result of grey relation was discovered in this study. It’s valuable to use mean value, max-value, min-value and interval value for normalization in the future study.

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Vocational Education And Training For Hong Kong Into The 21st Century: An Investigative Report, Manwey Joseph Leung Aug 2000

Vocational Education And Training For Hong Kong Into The 21st Century: An Investigative Report, Manwey Joseph Leung

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Demands from the 21st century customers will change fundamentally from that of past years. This article attempts to review the traditional strength of Hong Kong economy and its people's ability to meet with these new demands. Vocational Education and Training plays an important role in the provision of human resources. In this article the concept and methodology for "Shaping the 21st century worker" is proposed. The main issue being investigated is to provide workers with knowledge and ability, not just to cope with skills and knowledge require for their related field of work, but also the ability to control their …

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