Connecting NASA Science and Engineering with Earth Science Applications

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 473-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Susan Moran ◽  
Bradley Doorn ◽  
Vanessa Escobar ◽  
Molly E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Early Adopter ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Earth Observations ◽  
Critical Feedback ◽  
Product Specifications

Abstract The National Research Council (NRC) recently highlighted the dual role of NASA to support both science and applications in planning Earth observations. This article reports the efforts of the NASA Applied Sciences Program and NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission to integrate applications with science and engineering in prelaunch planning. The SMAP Early Adopter program supported the prelaunch applied research that comprises the SMAP Special Collection of the Journal of Hydrometeorology. This research, in turn, has resulted in unprecedented prelaunch preparation for SMAP applications and critical feedback to the mission to improve product specifications and distribution for postlaunch applications. These efforts have been a learning experience that should provide direction for upcoming missions and set some context for the next NRC decadal survey.

John Tuzo Wilson: a man who moved mountains

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. xvii-xxxi
Author(s):  
Gordon F. West ◽  
Ron M. Farquhar ◽  
George D. Garland ◽  
Henry C. Halls ◽  
Lawrence W. Morley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Tectonic Processes ◽  
Major Player ◽  
Canadian Research

Fifty years ago, the world’s Earth Scientists experienced the so-called “Revolution in the Earth Sciences”. In the decade from 1960 to 1970, a massive convergence took place from many diverse and contradictory theories about the tectonic processes operating on Earth (then loosely called “mountain building”) to a single widely accepted paradigm now called Plate Tectonics. A major player in leading the international “Revolution” was Canadian geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson. This tribute reviews how he helped define and promote the Plate Tectonic paradigm, and also, from 1946 to 1967, how he led a rapid expansion of the role of geophysics in Canadian and international earth science. Wilson was a controversial figure before and during the “Revolution”, but his influence was large. It was not coincidental that earth science research in Canada grew by 1964 to the point where the National Research Council of Canada could add the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences to its group of Canadian research journals.

ПСИХОЛОГИЯ И ПЕДАГОГИКА В ВУЗЕ// Actual Problems of Applied Sciences Journal World, 6(16), 2019/ Chief Editor Markus Hemmer: Open European Academy of Public Sciences (OEAPS Inc.). 06.07.2019. Barcelona, Spain, 2019. - PP. 9-15.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ольга Батыровна Цагараева
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
European Academy ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

В статье рассматривается роль психологических знаний в процессе обучения, анализируются современные подходы к организации подготовки преподавателей высшей школы в Узбекистане, выявлены основные тенденции и этапы формирования их компетентности, выявлены наиболее эффективные методы и формы повышения методической и психологической квалификации будущих преподавателей.The article discusses the role of psychological knowledge in the learning process, analyzes modern approaches to the organization of training of high school teachers in Uzbekistan, identifies the main trends and stages of formation their competencies, the most effective methods and forms of improving the methodological and psychological qualifications and future teachers.

Dialogic Teaching and Translanguaging in Deaf Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Swanwick
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Deaf Education ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Diverse Learning ◽  
Language Context ◽  
Pedagogical Framework

This chapter proposes a pedagogical framework for deaf education that builds on a sociocultural perspective and the role of interaction in learning. Pedagogical principles are argued that recognize the dialogic nature of learning and teaching and the role of language as “the tool of all tools” in this process. Building on established work on classroom talk in deaf education, the issues of dialogue in deaf education are extended to consider deaf children’s current learning contexts and their diverse and plural use of sign and spoken languages. Within this broad language context, the languaging and translanguaging practices of learners and teachers are explained as central to a pedagogical framework that is responsive to the diverse learning needs of deaf children. Within this pedagogical framework practical teaching strategies are suggested that draw on successful approaches in the wider field of language learning and take into account the particular learning experience and contexts of deaf children.

scholarly journals Health Sciences Students’ Perceptions of the Role of the Supervisor in Clinical Placements

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4427
Author(s):  
Álvaro Borrallo-Riego ◽  
Eleonora Magni ◽  
Juan Antonio Jiménez-Álvarez ◽  
Vicente Fernández-Rodríguez ◽  
María Dolores Guerra-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Data Matrix ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Health Sciences Students

The supervision of clinical placements is essential to achieving a positive learning experience in the clinical setting and which supports the professional training of those being supervised. The aim of this study was to explore health sciences students’ perceptions of the role of the supervisor in the supervision of clinical placements. A quantitative methodology was used, administering a previously validated questionnaire, by means of an expert panel and a pre-test, to 134 students from the Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry at the University of Seville (Spain). The analysis of variables was carried out by means of a data matrix. The results revealed a statistically significant difference in the perception of placement supervision depending on the degree, with Nursing producing the highest degree of affirmation in the variables studied and the greatest satisfaction with placement supervision; in contrast, Physiotherapy produced the greatest dissatisfaction and the lowest degree of affirmation. The study and analysis of these perceptions facilitates the collection of relevant information in order to formulate actions that help to improve the supervision experience during placements. They also allow a greater understanding of what factors most influence the experience of supervision during clinical placements.

Characteristics in Response Integration and Bifurcation of a Forced Duffing Oscillator

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang-Der Jeng ◽  
Yuan Kang ◽  
Yeon-Pun Chang ◽  
Shyh-Shyong Shyr
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Phase Plane ◽  
Duffing Oscillator ◽  
High Order ◽  
Chaotic Motions ◽  
Integration Algorithm ◽  
High Order Harmonic ◽  
Stiffness And Damping

The Duffing oscillator is well-known models of nonlinear system, with applications in many fields of applied sciences and engineering. In this paper, a response integration algorithm is proposed to analyze high-order harmonic and chaotic motions in this oscillator for modeling rotor excitations. This method numerically integrates the distance between state trajectory and the origin in the phase plane during a specific period and predicted intervals with excitation periods. It provides a quantitative characterization of system responses and can replace the role of the traditional stroboscopic technique (Poincare´ section method) to observe bifurcations and chaos of the nonlinear oscillators. Due to the signal response contamination of system, thus it is difficult to identify the high-order responses of the subharmonic motion because of the sampling points on Poincare´ map too near each other. Even the system responses will be made misjudgments. Combining the capability of precisely identifying period and constructing bifurcation diagrams, the advantages of the proposed response integration method are shown by case studies. Applying this method, the effects of the change in the stiffness and the damping coefficients on the vibration features of a Duffing oscillator are investigated in this paper. From simulation results, it is concluded that the stiffness and damping of the system can effectively suppress chaotic vibration and reduce vibration amplitude.

Report of the Committee to Survey Needs and Opportunities for the Biomaterials Industry

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.A. Barenberg
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Artificial Organs ◽  
Wound Management ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Industrial Needs

The Biomaterials Industry Subpanel was chartered by the National Research Council (on behalf of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering) to address the needs and opportunities in materials science and engineering as perceived by the biomaterials industry. This report represents an initial overview and should not be considered definitive.The Committee examined the short-term, intermediate, and long-term needs of the industry and how external factors such as regulations, lack of standards, and international competition influenced the industry. The industry is heterogeneous and was subsequently defined by the following market segments: artificial organs, biosensors, biotechnology, cardiovascular/blood products, drug delivery, equipment/devices, maxillofacial, ophthalmology, orthopedics, packaging, and wound management.Each of these market segments then addressed the:Role of materials in the industry,Current materials and material needs,Material opportunities and impact,Industrial needs/issues,International competition/foreign initiatives, andRole of the U.S. government.

ZMP: A REVIEW OF SOME BASIC MISUNDERSTANDINGS

2006 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 153-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIOMIR VUKOBRATOVIĆ ◽  
BRANISLAV BOROVAC ◽  
VELJKO POTKONJAK
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Ground Contact ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Zero Moment ◽  
Basic Characteristics

One of basic characteristics of the regular bipedal walk of humanoid robots is the maintenance of their dynamic balance during the walk, whereby a decisive role is played by the unpowered degrees of freedom arising at the foot–ground contact. Hence, the role of the Zero-Moment Point (ZMP) as an indicator of dynamic balance is indispensable. This paper gives a detailed discussion of some basic theoretical assumptions related to the ZMP in the light of imprecise, and even incorrect, interpretations that have recently appeared, and which have led to some erroneous conclusions. Examples are given to show some erroneous basic attitudes and the genesis of some of them is indicated. It is also pointed out that in the domain of bipedal walk there are still notions that are not clearly defined and their meanings differentiated in some related branches of science and engineering. One of the examples is dynamic balance and stability, which are often used interchangeably.

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