scholarly journals INTEGRATING CADD INTO HORTICULTURE CURRICULUMS - OPPORTUNITY OR HEADACHE?

HortScience ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 485f-485
Author(s):  
David L. Creech
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Marketing Effort ◽  
State University

Nationwide, horticulture enrollments have fallen from the peak in the late 1970's. For instance, Stephen F. Austin State University enjoyed a maximum horticulture enrollment of 99 undergraduates in 1977. By fall 1990, that enrollment had fallen to 30. The absence of CADD (computer-assisted drafting or design) on SFASU's campus suggested an opportunity for horticulture to fill a void. This paper will discuss the decision-making process and costs involved in setting up a ten-station AutoCad lab with good plotting capability. A successful marketing effort has resulted in easy-to-fill sections with wide appeal across campus. CADD courses make sense in horticulture if the resource is not available in other departments, technical support is available, and the tool has value to related projects in the horticulture program.

scholarly journals Main Events List/Main Incidents List Development Process for Computer Assisted Exercises

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-151
Author(s):  
Diana-Ioana Neagoe Zinca ◽  
Ghiță Bârsan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Systems Architecture ◽  
Execution Phase ◽  
Successful Execution ◽  
Will Force ◽  
Simulation Systems

AbstractIn order to train commanders in the decision making process we cannot rely only on simulation systems. It takes more than war-gaming to be able to train higher-headquarters and a proven solution to achieve that is by using computer assisted exercises (CAX). The higher the headquarters that needs to be trained, the more complicated the systems’ architecture becomes, for both functional area services and simulation systems together with their auxiliary tools. It takes subject matter experts in different domains and up to 18 months to plan a computer assisted exercise. Every stage of the exercise planning process involves using different systems and building their databases. In order for the commanders to be successfully trained in the decision making process, they need to face operational dilemmas. The Main Events List/Main Incidents List (MEL/MIL) planning team’s job during the exercise planning phase is to develop the major events, incidents and injects which will trigger the operational dilemmas and will force the commanders to make decisions in dynamic and fast-paced environments. The MEL/MIL plays a key role in ensuring a successful execution phase of an exercise and this study explains in detail the complex 8 month process of building the MEL/MIL database.

Present Situation Analysis for Reinforcement of Dangerous Reservoirs in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 405-408 ◽  
pp. 2452-2456
Author(s):  
Zu Wen Yan ◽  
Yan Yi Zhang ◽  
Guo Dong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Severity Assessment ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Arduous Task

The dam reinforcement and rehabilitation of dangerous reservoirs is a long-term and an arduous task in China. The reinforced and reinforcing reservoirs have been investigated from the statistics of historical accidents, the sickness and danger severity assessment situation at present. The sickness and danger severity comprehensive assessment technology is to appraise the severity of sickness and danger of a detective reservoir dam, to provide technical support in the decision-making process on whether danger removal and consolidation should be performed and what work sequence and method should be adopted in this work. It is a technology in urgent demand in China for rehabilitation and consolidation of reservoirs with sickness and danger, which will provide the technical support for the dam reinforcement decision-making and safety management.

scholarly journals dPanther: Benefits and Challenges of Building and Managing Your Own Digital Repository

Collections ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 265-275
Author(s):  
Rebecca Bakker ◽  
Kelley Rowan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Digital Platform

This article addresses the benefits and challenges associated with building your own digital repository platform and managing content, technical hurdles, and partners. The authors discuss the advantages of building a repository that can evolve as standards in the field do and how to handle the problems that arise when you are both the metadata manager and technical support. The authors also discuss difficulties their partners have experienced with the platform and lessons learned. It is the hope that this information will provide those who may be either managing a digital repository or considering a new digital platform, relevant information that will prove to be helpful in the decision-making process.

scholarly journals Prioritizing Information Sources and Requirements in Students’ Choice of Higher Education Destination: Using AHP Analysis

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110156
Author(s):  
Damla Ürer Erdil ◽  
Mustafa Tümer ◽  
Halil Nadiri ◽  
Iman Aghaei
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
International Students ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
State University ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy

Attracting and enrolling international students have become the primary concern of marketing efforts of higher education institutions. For this purpose, understanding the decision-making process of students is vital. This study examines the information sources, requirements, and choice factors of international students who study their higher education in an emerging higher education destination. This study is conducted through a quantitative approach, based on both exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). A survey was conducted with students who enrolled at a state university for the first time. University websites are identified as the most used sources of information. According to the study’s findings, job and scholarship opportunities are identified as the first and most crucial concern of international students. This study is of particular significance for higher education institutions in emerging higher education destinations to better understand students’ decision-making process.

scholarly journals Constructive Simulation Programs and NATO Functional Area Services Applied in Computer Assisted Exercises

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-166
Author(s):  
Diana-Ioana Zinca Neagoe ◽  
Ghiţă Bârsan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Virtual Simulation ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Functional Area ◽  
General Staff ◽  
The Military ◽  
Simulation Systems ◽  
Individual Training

Abstract In the military system, the simulation represents the most important tool to support training because it can be efficiently used from the tactical level up to the strategic level. For individual training the costs of using real or virtual simulation systems are not justified, but when it comes to the headquarters training, running a live exercise is extremely expensive. Nevertheless, the units, headquarters, general staff and Multinational Division South-East Headquarters need to be trained in both national and NATO exercises. Taking those facts into consideration, computer assisted exercises proved to be the best solution for training all the cycles within a headquarters that support the decision making process. In the last years, among all those processes, a particular interest was shown for the functional area services interoperability during NATO computer assisted exercises.

scholarly journals Managing a Large-Scale Weeding Project

2019 ◽  
pp. 276-285
Author(s):  
Leslie Engelson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
State University ◽  
Physical Processing

The main circulating collection at Murray State University had never been thoughtfully and intentionally weeded. Several factors aligned raising the need for a thorough weed of the collection resulting in weeding over a quarter of the collection (over 100,000 volumes). Most of the volumes were pulled and processed over a 32-week period. This session will discuss the circumstances that made the time ripe for weeding, the criteria that informed the decision-making process, tools used in that process, workflow for accomplishing the physical processing, cross-library participation in the project, and things to consider when implementing a project of this magnitude.

AAC Decision-Making and Mobile Technology: Points to Ponder

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Abbott ◽  
Debby McBride
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Ipod Touch ◽  
Feature Match

The purpose of this article is to outline a decision-making process and highlight which portions of the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluation process deserve special attention when deciding which features are required for a communication system in order to provide optimal benefit for the user. The clinician then will be able to use a feature-match approach as part of the decision-making process to determine whether mobile technology or a dedicated device is the best choice for communication. The term mobile technology will be used to describe off-the-shelf, commercially available, tablet-style devices like an iPhone®, iPod Touch®, iPad®, and Android® or Windows® tablet.

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