scholarly journals Report of the State Geothermal Resources Task Force, State of California

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Warburg ◽  
Bill Kirkham ◽  
Theodore Hannon
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
The State ◽  
Geothermal Resources

Abstract NS1: Creating partnerships through the Kansas Initiative for Stroke Survival (KISS)

Stroke ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Sandt ◽  
Sarah E Brown ◽  
Colleen Lechtenberg ◽  
Cherie Boxberger
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
The State ◽  
Treatment Rate ◽  
Stroke Treatment ◽  
Feasible Alternative

Background and Purpose: Kansas is a rural state lacking geographically distributed Primary Stroke Centers. Of the 128 hospitals in the state, 88 are designated as Critical Access (< 25 beds). The IV r-tPA treatment rate in the state of Kansas is less than 2%. The pre-transport death rate for patients experiencing stroke is 55.4% .The Kansas Initiative for Stroke Survival (KISS) is a non-government task force with the goal of improving stroke survival among Kansans. The task force encourages hospitals to meet the criteria as Emergent Stroke Ready and based on this status engage with their individual communities, emphasizing the need to seek immediate assistance by EMS and arrive at the closest Emergent Stroke Ready hospital. Methods: The Kansas State Stroke Task force determined requirements for a facility to be considered Emergent Stroke Ready. This information was distributed to all acute care hospitals, asking them to attest to their current Emergent Stroke Ready status. Responding facilities were provided access to a 24 x 7 Stroke Support Line - providing access to stroke specialists for the purpose of guiding evaluation and treatment decisions for r-tPA administration or need to transfer to a higher level of care. Also provided is a community education kit. Data is reported through a monthly online survey or GWTG database. Results: In the first phase of the KISS project - forty-two hospitals attested as Emergent Stroke Ready Hospital or were certified Primary Stroke Centers representing an increase from 7% to 33% of hospitals in the state. The post-KISS implementation IV r-tPA treatment rate for the reporting Emergent Stroke Ready Hospitals was 48% compared with a pre-KISS treatment rate of 6%. The post-KISS implementation transfer rate was 26.7% compared with a pre-KISS transfer rate of 18%. Conclusions: The KISS program resulted in a significant increase in the number of Emergent Stroke Ready facilities, stroke patients reporting to their local hospitals, stroke specialist consultations and use of IV r-tPA. A low-cost, statewide program that provides standardized protocols and direct phone consultation can improve access to stroke specialists and approved stroke treatment while offering a cost effective, feasible alternative to telestroke.

Institutionalizing the option of dam removal: the New Hampshire initiative

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.D. Lindloff
Keyword(s):  
New Hampshire ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Dam Removal ◽  
The State ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Safety Hazard ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northeastern State ◽  
Flow Through

For two years, the State of New Hampshire has worked to institutionalize the option of dam removal. The high gradient streams that flow through the granite hills and mountains of this small northeastern state provided ideal conditions for dam construction, particularly during AmericaÕs Industrial Revolution of the 1800s when mills were constructed throughout the area. With more than 4,800 dams in the stateÕs database, there are many opportunities for the removal of dams that no longer serve a useful purpose, have become a public safety hazard and impact the river environment. Efforts to facilitate removal of dams in New Hampshire include the formation of a River Restoration Task Force and the creation of a dam removal program within the state agency responsible for regulating dams. This has led to the removal of two dams in the past year, with approximately ten additional projects in various stages of planning. A history of this agency-led initiative, as well as a discussion of the programÕs strengths, challenges and goals for the future are presented.

International Report: Water losses management and techniques

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.O. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Task Force ◽  
The State ◽  
Water Losses ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
International Report ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Unaccounted For Water

Since the 1991 IWSA International Report on “Unaccounted for Water and the Economics of Leak Detection”, the topic of management of water losses in distribution systems has received increased attention. This International Report seeks to present an overview of the “state of the art” in management of Water Losses, based on the Reports prepared by National Rapporteurs, the recent recommendations of the IWA Task Forces on Water Losses and Performance Measures, and improved concepts for modelling components of leakage and pressure: leakage relationships. The IWA Task Force recommendations provide overdue clarification and guidance on several issues that have caused persistent problems in quantifying Water Losses and comparing the effectiveness of their management. It is hoped that this Report will assist in the promotion of a more standardised international approach to the definition, assessment, monitoring and management of Non-Revenue Water and Water Losses.

scholarly journals Administration of Customs Payments: International Standards for the Interaction of Tax and Customs Authorities

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-121
Author(s):  
M. A. Ryl’skaya ◽  
S. O. Shokhin ◽  
O. G. Bobrova ◽  
A. Y. Kozhankov ◽  
N. V. Eremeeva
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
The State ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Excise Taxes ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Financial Action Task

The authors have formulated and consistently proved the hypothesis that well-functioning interaction of tax and customs authorities is required to increase the effciency of the state revenues administration. The mechanism of this interaction should be formed when implementing the standards of the World Customs Organization and the World Trade Organization into the Russian legislation. The research is particularly relevant since Federal Law No. 289 of 03.08.2018 “On Customs Regulation” has entered into force. This law includes article 222 “Interaction and cooperation of customs and tax authorities”. As scientifc and practical results, promising areas for development have been worked out: improving unifed mechanism of customs, tax administration and currency control based on integrated innovative technologies; implementing international standards developed under the auspices of the World Customs Organization; creating prerequisites for the transition to the payment of import customs duties and taxes after the release of goods for law-abiding business; redistributing functions of customs and tax authorities. The authors propose to leave the control of import duties payments for the customs authorities, and to delegate the control of VAT and excise taxes on imported goods payments to the tax authorities. The article includes the results of a comparative legal analysis of the acts of the World Customs Organization, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Agreement on Cooperation of the Federal Customs Service and the Federal Tax Service of Russia. It justifes the conclusion that the studied cooperation is the most important tool for the customs payments administration. This is confrmed by the statistics on additional and pre-leased revenues to the state budget based on the results of joint and coordinated verifcation activities. The result of the study is the formulation of promising areas for improving the interaction of customs and tax authorities in the Eurasian Economic union (EAEu) and Russia.

scholarly journals MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR OPERATIONAL GROUPS OF THE FIRE AND RESCUE GARRISON

T-Comm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Rozhkova ◽  
◽  
Andrei A. Strakholes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Task Force ◽  
The State ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Maximum Efficiency ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Fire Extinguishing ◽  
Operational Group

Support for management decision-making in emergencies (firefighting), in uncertain conditions of its occurrence and uncertainty of its development is necessary for the organization of optimal distribution of the forces and resources of operational units involved in firefighting, and the knowledge of the Manager. The process of our research is limited only to the case of fire. Taking into account the fact that the data in the fire-extinguishing card does not always coincide with the state of the object where the fire occurred and the unpredictability of the direction of fire propagation, the decision-maker in this situation will organize work to obtain reliable information. These features allow us to consider the object where the fire occurred as a complex system. In this case, the main difficulty of information and analytical support for operational groups, as a management entity, is that at the first stage, the decision-maker in the operational group, without having complete reliable information, organizes its clarification. With the correct organization of their work, the task force ensures maximum efficiency of using the units of the Ministry of emergencies of Russia, when solving their combat tasks. At the same time, it can collect information about an emergency when it receives a notification of its occurrence, as well as on the way of the operational units to the specified area. The issues that determine the development of documents in different periods of the operational situation are considered, and the actions of the decision-maker in the operational group during fire extinguishing are highlighted separately. In this mathematical model, in which the transition of the system from the state of “fire occurrence” to the state of “fire extinguished” is modeled, the properties of a continuous Markov process are used. The solution of Kolmogorov’s system of differential equations determines the probability that characterizes the competence of the decision-maker in the task force.

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