UN Legion: An Operational Tool.

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Operational Tool

The Poseidon Operational Tool for the Prediction of Floating Pollutant Transport

2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (7-12) ◽  
pp. 270-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pollani Annika ◽  
Triantafyllou George ◽  
Petihakis George ◽  
Nittis Konstantinos ◽  
Dounas Costas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pollutant Transport ◽  
Operational Tool

scholarly journals Climatological and statistical characteristics of the Haines Index for North America

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Winkler ◽  
Brian E. Potter ◽  
Dwight F. Wilhelm ◽  
Ryan P. Shadbolt ◽  
Krerk Piromsopa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Statistical Characteristics ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Extensive Analysis ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Humidity Measurements ◽  
Operational Tool

The Haines Index is an operational tool for evaluating the potential contribution of dry, unstable air to the development of large or erratic plume-dominated wildfires. The index has three variants related to surface elevation, and is calculated from temperature and humidity measurements at atmospheric pressure levels. To effectively use the Haines Index, fire forecasters and managers must be aware of the climatological and statistical characteristics of the index for their location. However, a detailed, long-term, and spatially extensive analysis of the index does not currently exist. To meet this need, a 40-year (1961–2000) climatology of the Haines Index was developed for North America. The climatology is based on gridded (2.5° latitude × 2.5° longitude) temperature and humidity fields from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. The climatology illustrates the large spatial variability in the Haines Index both within and between regions using the different index variants. These spatial variations point to the limitations of the index and must be taken into account when using the Haines Index operationally.

scholarly journals Brief communication "An auto-diagnosis tool to highlight interdependencies between urban technical networks"

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2219-2224 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Toubin ◽  
D. Serre ◽  
Y. Diab ◽  
R. Laganier
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Diagnosis Method ◽  
Solution Design ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Operational Tool

Abstract. Natural hazards threaten the urban system and its components that are likely to fail. With their high degree of interdependency, urban networks and services are critical issues for the resilience of a city. And yet, network managers are scarcely aware of their flaws and dependencies and they are reluctant to take them into account. In order to develop an operational tool to improve urban resilience, we propose here an auto-diagnosis method to be completed by network managers. The subsequent confrontation of all diagnoses is the basis of collaborative research for problem identification and solution design. The tool is experimented with the Parisian urban transport society.

Enabling Virtual Knowledge Networks for Human Rights Monitoring for People with Disabilities

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christo El Morr ◽  
Mihaela Dinca-Panaitescu ◽  
Marcia Rioux ◽  
Julien Subercaze ◽  
Pierre Maret ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Community People ◽  
Operational Tool

Holistic disability rights monitoring is an imperative approach to permit translation of rights on paper into rights in reality for people with disabilities. However, evidence-based knowledge produced through such a holistic monitoring approach has to be accessible to a broad range of stakeholders, e.g., groups such as: researchers, representatives of disability community, people with disabilities, media, policy makers, and the general public. Besides, the collected evidence should contribute to building capacity within disability community around human rights questions. This article explains the design process of a Virtual Knowledge Network (VKN) as an operational tool to support mobilization and dissemination of evidence-based knowledge produced by the Disability Rights Promotion International Canada (DRPI-Canada) project. This VKN is embedded in the more general framework of DRPI, grounded in a human rights approach to disability that acknowledges the importance of creating knowledgeable communities in order to make the disability rights monitoring efforts sustainable.

scholarly journals The Principal at Risk: Stress and Organizing Mindfulness in the School Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6318
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Diotaiuti ◽  
Stefania Mancone ◽  
Fernando Bellizzi ◽  
Giuseppe Valente
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Stress Measurement ◽  
School Context ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Italian School ◽  
Operational Tool ◽  
Path Analysis Model

Background: In recent years the role of school principals is becoming increasingly complex and responsible. Methods: This study was voluntarily attended by 419 Italian school principals who were administered the Psychological Stress Measurement (MSP), Mindfulness Organizing Scale (MOS), Polychronic-Monochronic Tendency Scale (PMTS), and the Scale of Emotions at Work (SEW). Results: The study has produced a path analysis model in which the relationships between the main predictors of principals’ work discomfort were explained. The effect of depressive anxiety on perceived discomfort (ß = 0.517) found a protective mediator in the mindfulness component that recognizes the sharing as a fundamental operational tool (ß = −0.206), while an increasing sense of effort and confusion could significantly amplify the experience of psychological discomfort associated with the exercise of school leadership (ß = 0.254). Conclusions: The model developed in this study suggests that focusing on organizing mindfulness can be a valuable guideline for interventions.

scholarly journals Thermodynamic Formalism in Neuronal Dynamics and Spike Train Statistics

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 1330
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Cofré ◽  
Cesar Maldonado ◽  
Bruno Cessac
Keyword(s):  
Gibbs Measures ◽  
Thermodynamic Formalism ◽  
Maximum Entropy Principle ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Neuronal Dynamics ◽  
Inference Procedure ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Theoretical Neuroscience ◽  
Entropy Principle ◽  
Operational Tool

The Thermodynamic Formalism provides a rigorous mathematical framework for studying quantitative and qualitative aspects of dynamical systems. At its core, there is a variational principle that corresponds, in its simplest form, to the Maximum Entropy principle. It is used as a statistical inference procedure to represent, by specific probability measures (Gibbs measures), the collective behaviour of complex systems. This framework has found applications in different domains of science. In particular, it has been fruitful and influential in neurosciences. In this article, we review how the Thermodynamic Formalism can be exploited in the field of theoretical neuroscience, as a conceptual and operational tool, in order to link the dynamics of interacting neurons and the statistics of action potentials from either experimental data or mathematical models. We comment on perspectives and open problems in theoretical neuroscience that could be addressed within this formalism.

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