Advantages of Compound S-scan over Sectorial Scan or E-scan: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (12) ◽  
pp. 1138-1149
Author(s):  
Stephen Sundarraj
Keyword(s):  
Qualification Test ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Test Plate ◽  
Fixed Angle ◽  
Available Resources

Within PAUT, inspectors have the option to apply various scanning techniques for performing weld inspections according to their configurations. These include the sectorial scan (S-scan) or a fixed-angle electronic scan (E-scan), or a combination of both called a compound S-scan. Compound S-scan, introduced around 2015 (Magruder 2016), has not been much explored, as not enough data can be extracted from the available resources to determine its effectiveness for inspection. Therefore, the author has taken a specific interest in studying this technique by comparing the available PAUT scanning techniques and providing options for selecting the most appropriate scanning techniques for the intended applications. For this purpose, a 25 mm thick welder qualification test plate with natural defects (verified by RT) was studied.

scholarly journals Digital Storytelling in Cultural Heritage: Audience Engagement in the Interactive Documentary New Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1193
Author(s):  
Anna Podara ◽  
Dimitrios Giomelakis ◽  
Constantinos Nicolaou ◽  
Maria Matsiola ◽  
Rigas Kotsakis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Social

This paper casts light on cultural heritage storytelling in the context of interactive documentary, a hybrid media genre that employs a full range of multimedia tools to document reality, provide sustainability of the production and successful engagement of the audience. The main research hypotheses are enclosed in the statements: (a) the interactive documentary is considered a valuable tool for the sustainability of cultural heritage and (b) digital approaches to documentary storytelling can provide a sustainable form of viewing during the years. Using the Greek interactive documentary (i-doc) NEW LIFE (2013) as a case study, the users’ engagement is evaluated by analyzing items from a seven-year database of web metrics. Specifically, we explore the adopted ways of the interactive documentary users to engage with the storytelling, the depth to which they were involved along with the most popular sections/traffic sources and finally, the differences between the first launch period and latest years were investigated. We concluded that interactivity affordances of this genre enhance the social dimension of cultural, while the key factors for sustainability are mainly (a) constant promotion with transmedia approach; (b) data-driven evaluation and reform; and (c) a good story that gathers relevant niches, with specific interest to the story.

scholarly journals Investigation of Nanogrids for Improved Navy Installation Energy Resilience

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4298
Author(s):  
Alissa Kain ◽  
Douglas L. Van Bossuyt ◽  
Anthony Pollman
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Critical Loads ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
The Military

Military bases perform important national security missions. In order to perform these missions, specific electrical energy loads must have continuous, uninterrupted power even during terrorist attacks, adversary action, natural disasters, and other threats of specific interest to the military. While many global military bases have established microgrids that can maintain base operations and power critical loads during grid disconnect events where outside power is unavailable, many potential threats can cause microgrids to fail and shed critical loads. Nanogrids are of specific interest because they have the potential to protect individual critical loads in the event of microgrid failure. We present a systems engineering methodology that analyzes potential nanogrid configurations to understand which configurations may improve energy resilience and by how much for critical loads from a national security perspective. This then allows targeted deployment of nanogrids within existing microgrid infrastructures. A case study of a small military base with an existing microgrid is presented to demonstrate the potential of the methodology to help base energy managers understand which options are preferable and justify implementing nanogrids to improve energy resilience.

Ecocompositional and Performative Strategies for Creative Usage of Everyday Sounds: Creative Semantic Anchoring

Leonardo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-196
Author(s):  
Damián Keller ◽  
Leonardo Feichas
Keyword(s):  
New Method ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Solo Violin ◽  
Available Resources

The authors cover recent advances in ecologically grounded creative practice, highlighting performative strategies in instrumental writing. They address techniques adopted in ecocomposition and propose an expansion of the available resources by introducing a new method: creative semantic anchoring. The underlying concepts are presented and a case study—targeting the performative practice of Flausino Valle’s 26 Characteristic and Concert Preludes for Solo Violin—is described.

scholarly journals Resources and Results in Union Rivalry: A Case Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 815-830
Author(s):  
Joan Mount ◽  
Jacob P. Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Available Resources

This paper shows the asymetric disequilibrium between available resources and results in the course of a union recruiting campaign in a case study of an experience of CUPE and LUSSA at Laurentian University.

YouTube as a Performative Arena

2011 ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
S. Faye Hendrick ◽  
Simon Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Community Interaction ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Sense Of Identity

The video sharing site YouTube is used by huge numbers of young people in the roles of consumers and producers of content and meaning. The site hosts more than 120,000,000 video clips, and its users represent a wide variety of nationalities, religions, ethnic backgrounds, identities and lifestyles. Due to the scale of YouTube it is hard to see how a tangible sense of actual community could be created within the site. Using on- and offline ethnographic data in the form of footage, interviews and patterns of community interaction (favoriting, subscribing, commenting, rating, and video replies), this chapter presents the results of a case study that aims to analyze how a specific interest group with a certain national anchoring (Swedish parkour youth) deal with the vastness and complexity of YouTube in creating a sense of identity and community in relation to their specialized interest.

COMPANY COMPETITIVENESS AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Vinka Cetinski ◽  
Ines Milohnić
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Paper Model ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
A Company ◽  
Principal Task ◽  
Available Resources

Connection between competitive strategies and competitive advantages is described in details in this paper. Model of the research is located on the company level in tourism and hospitality. Applicative basis of the paper is founded on the Diamond of Competitiveness (Case Study) usage and is based on the qualitative research of small entrepreneurship in tourism and hospitality. The fact that every strategy is based on creating and sustaining competitive advantages implies that the principal task of company management is shaping company’s competitive advantages. Management uses its knowledge, controls available resources and manages business processes and events of a company in tourism and hospitality.

scholarly journals From Cumulative Strain to Available Resources: A Narrative Case Study of the Potential Effects of New Trauma Exposure on Recovery

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 270-292
Author(s):  
Signe Hjelen Stige ◽  
Margrethe Seeger Halvorsen
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Trauma Exposure ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Narrative Case Study ◽  
Cumulative Strain ◽  
Early Trauma ◽  
Available Resources

This article presents a narrative case study of a client with a history of multiple traumas and severe symptomatology, coupled with an ongoing recovery process. A hermeneutical–phenomenological approach was used to analyze two interviews with the participant over a period of 1 year, following a trauma treatment program. Her husband’s suicide in between the two interviews allowed for an exploration of the possible effects of new trauma exposure on the process of recovery. Analysis of the data revealed how the participant’s early trauma experiences had resulted in escalating symptomatology. Through her relationship with her husband, she gradually became ready to engage in therapy in a way that allowed her to benefit from it. Her husband’s suicide forced her to reconsider her own part in her recovery, resulting in a strengthened feeling of inner security and self-efficacy parallel to what is seen in posttraumatic growth. The results contribute our understanding of individual processes of change and recovery, including processes of growth following cumulative trauma. Plausible mechanisms for growth in the present case was the ability to recognize and tolerate feelings, making sense of one’s own reactions, as well as a sense of control and trust in available resources.

scholarly journals Analysis of The Integrated Farming Income in The SMD (Sarjana Membangun Desa) Program In Padang City (Case Study: Tani Ternak Sepakat Group)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Amelira Haris Nasution ◽  
Nofialdi Nofialdi ◽  
Ferdhinal Asful
Keyword(s):  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Treatment Technology ◽  
Breeding Activity ◽  
Integrated Farming ◽  
Key Word ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
Available Resources ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The purpose of this research is to analyze the farming income of farmers who develop integrated farming system after and before getting the SMD Program in Padang City by involving Tani Ternak Sepakat Group as case study. This research was  designed as a  case study conducted from June 2012 to July 2012 in Kurao Pagang, Padang City, West Sumatera. In this research, the researcher used descriptive qualitative and descriptive quantitative design. The results of this study  showed that the integrated farming system through the SMD Program in Tani Ternak Sepakat Groups has implemented the integration between paddy farming and breeding funded by SMD Program. For breeding activity, The Tani Ternak Sepakat group raises both goats and cows. At the same time, the farmer group also cultivates paddy only for integrating between paddy farming and cattle. The integration is done through the use of cattle’s compost as paddy farming fertilizer and the use of paddy’s farming residues for feeding the cattle. However, these practices reduce farmers’ income by 95.12% for the first years of the program. Based on the study, it is suggested that farmers implement waste treatment technology that utilize available resources and to increase their income. Key Word: SMD Program, Integrated Farming System, Farmers Income

scholarly journals Functional diversification of post-war neighbourhoods – Novi Sad case study

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Carević Tomić ◽  
Ranka Medenica
Keyword(s):  
Space Syntax ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Functional Diversification ◽  
Mass Housing ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Post War ◽  
Novi Sad

This paper discuss the mass housing neighborhoods named Limans in Novi Sad, Serbia, with the specific case study of urban quarter named Liman 3, showing a good example of gradual functional diversification of neighborhood since post-war period up to present days. The research approach of the paper is based on combination of Space Syntax, Spacematrix and Mixed-use index tool, as well as on contextual analysis with the specific interest on societal and economical issues. Aim of the paper is to show how local circumstances joint with global influences, evident in the example of Liman 3 urban area, have induced transition from completely residential to moderately mixed-use neighborhood during more than 40 years development period.

Pandemics, Preprints, and Praxis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Michael R. Schwartz ◽  
Paul Oppold
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Available Resources

The speed and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges not seen since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Governments, healthcare providers, and industries are using all available resources to produce and distribute prevention and mitigation measures. This chapter examines the issues, challenges, and questions surrounding the use of wearable devices (e.g., Fitbit) in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The implementation of wearables to prevent the spread of infection in the 2020 NBA Bubble is used as a case study of whether and how wearables should be used for detecting illnesses. The role of preprints and their influence on discourse about COVID-19 are also discussed in this chapter.

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