The Practical Aspects of a Usability Lab (Panel)

1989 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 630-631
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Under Construction

This panel will explore the practical issues behind the scenes of a Usability Lab. The following topics will be discussed: how the labs are designed and built, including types of video equipment; what situations produce the need for a lab; the history of some of the labs; lessons learned in running a lab; and how Usability Labs will be utilized in the future. The panelists will be from different industries, testing different types of ideas, theories and products. Some of the Labs represented are several years old and some are just under construction. Usability Lab testing is no longer restricted to academia and larger corporations. It is useful for many of us.

History of weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) translocation in New Zealand: lessons learned, islands as sanctuaries and the future

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 359-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Watts ◽  
Ian Stringer ◽  
Greg Sherley ◽  
George Gibbs ◽  
Chris Green
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Submarine Propulsion in the Royal Navy

1982 ◽  
Vol 196 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Horlick
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Nuclear Submarine ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
Operational Characteristics ◽  
The Us ◽  
Successful Resolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Under Construction

The paper outlines the history of submarine propulsion from the early days, through the hydrogen peroxide plants on Explorer and Excalibur to the setting up of the nuclear submarine programme. The building of the submarine prototype at Dounreay, the purchase of the Dreadnought plant from the US and the design and construction of the Valiant class submarines formed the base for developments in the 1960s leading to the highly successful Resolution and Swiftsure class submarines. Lessons learned from the design, building and operation of nuclear submarine propulsion plants are discussed and the future requirements for unproved operational characteristics and for higher nuclear safety standards are examined against the constraints of keeping unit costs under control. The success of the nuclear submarine programme is shown by the position today where the Royal Navy has sixteen nuclear submarines in service, a new submarine class under construction and work on the next generation of nuclear propulsion plants well advanced.

Coast Guard Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System (VOSS), Past, Present and Future of meeting Service spill response needs (containment, skimming, and pumping)

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 2017023
Author(s):  
Mike Crickard ◽  
Tim Gunter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vessel Response ◽  
History Of

The Coast Guard Vessel of Opportunity Skimming (VOSS) has recently gone through a consolidation of pollution response equipment to modernize its spill equipment capability for oil spill (containment, skimming, and pumping) to meet the response needs of the future. This paper will review the history of Coast Guard VOSS implementation, deployment during Deep Water Horizon, VOSS consolidation of 15 sites in 2014–2015, and challenges facing Coast Guard VOSS capability gaps in the future. In the aftermath of the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill in 1989, the Coast Guard assessed gaps and deficiencies in the ability of government and private sector resources to fully and adequately respond to major oil spill events. At the time, major gaps were found in the private sector's ability to deliver emergency first response equipment in major port areas. These gaps were addressed by Coast Guard acquisition, pre-positioning and on-going maintenance of VOSS systems & other equipment. Regulatory regimes were created and the Coast Guard created a system for determining the ability of the private sector to respond to a worst case discharge (WCD) including Title 33 CFR Parts 154 and 155 requiring facility and vessel response plan holders to have plans and contracts for privately owned pollution response equipment sufficient to respond to a WCD. The regulations have resulted in the increased capacity of Oil Spill Response Organization (OSRO) in the coastal areas of the continental United States. The Deepwater Horizon response in 2010 was the largest pollution response equipment deployment by private and government resources in the nation's history. Most Coast Guard VOSS systems were deployed in response to Deepwater Horizon. The growth of spill response equipment by the private sector and lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon VOSS spill deployment were utilized to support the consolidation of VOSS equipment in the continental United States while maintaining VOSS capacity in remote areas.

Conscription and the Politics of Military Recruitment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan W. Toronto ◽  
Lindsay P. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Military Manpower ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The French Revolution

There is more to conscription than the presence or absence of conscripts in a military force. A brief survey of the history of military recruitment suggests that economics, threat, and political heritage go a long way toward explaining why and how states recruit manpower and prepare that manpower for war. Understanding the sources and implications of different types of military recruitment, and how trends in military recruitment change over time, is essential for understanding conscription now and in the future. The French Revolution is often regarded as a turning point in conscription, with the famed levée en masse, which coincided with dramatic changes in warfare and how states mobilized their polities for war. Less well known is how rarely conscripts were actually used in the wars that followed the French Revolution. Rather than being a turning point in the history of military recruitment, the levée en masse was just another moment in the ebb and flow of how states recruit military manpower in response to economics, threat, and political heritage. A number of dimensions describe the extraordinary variety of compulsory recruitment systems. The two most important of these dimensions are whether conscription is institutionalized or opportunistic, and whether it is core or supplementary. The typology of compulsory recruitment systems that results describes a great deal of the varieties of conscription and, along with other dimensions, might give clues as to how states will recruit military manpower in the future.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned in Applying Accelerometers to Nuclear Effects Testing

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 619-629
Author(s):  
Patrick L. Walter
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Short Duration ◽  
Rise Time ◽  
Impulsive Loading ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Free Surfaces ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nuclear Effects

Exoatmospheric nuclear effects, such as those that would be encounter by reentry bodies, provide instantaneous (near zero-duration), impulsive loading of structures. Endoatmospheric nuclear effects possess an impulse that is finite in duration, but whose rise time is still instantaneous. The commonality of these loadings is that they initiate waves propagating through structures, resulting in extremely short duration accelerations to free surfaces where accelerometers are mounted. Over the years, attempts have been made to measure free surface accelerations using ceramic, quartz, and piezoresistive accelerometers. This paper describes the lessons learned, and looks to the future. It also provides a history of shock accelerometer development.

scholarly journals The Financial Crises of 1929 and 2008: What Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Health Crisis?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatien Avelé ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Macroeconomic Instability ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Reading the history of economic and financial crises bears witness to the unprecedented and unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. To complete our reflection, we are discussing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in connection with macroeconomic instability. This short reflection answers the question of whether the lessons learned from the crises of the past can serve the major international financial players in the future

scholarly journals Towards a Digital Ecosystem for a Smart City District: Procedure, Results, and Lessons Learned

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 686-716
Author(s):  
Frank Elberzhager ◽  
Patrick Mennig ◽  
Svenja Polst ◽  
Simon Scherr ◽  
Phil Stüpfert
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
The Future ◽  
City District ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Digital Processes

The digital transformation supports many cities on the way to becoming smarter cities, enabling them to enhance digital processes, care about climate-friendly goals, or improve the quality of life of their citizens. However, such changes usually take place step by step and not in a big-bang approach. In order for the direction of the digital transformation to be defined, it is necessary to know and understand the needs and requirements of all relevant stakeholders who will be affected or are intended to use the new digital solutions. As our environment, a smart city district, is currently under construction, we do not know most of the future stakeholders yet. Therefore, we had to find new ways of eliciting the needs and requirements for digital solutions without knowing, e.g., the citizens who will live in the future district. We show a framework of the procedures we followed, classified into (a) vision and concepts, (b) smart city district digital ecosystem, and (c) dissemination and events. We substantiate the processes with example results and provide a discussion on how we evaluate our solutions with respect to future applicability. Because evaluations are only very limited in our setting right now, we focus on four lead questions to argue why the procedures and results are adequate and share the lessons we learned on this path towards a digital smart city district.

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