Communications from Home Base

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-48
Author(s):  
Jenn Dlugos ◽  
Charlie Hatton
Keyword(s):  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben J. Searle

The work of airline pilots is demanding and must be followed by rest periods (slips) so that pilots recover sufficiently well to keep flying safely. When slips occur away from home base, pilots are usually accommodated in a hotel. This paper reviews the phenomenon of psychological detachment from work (i.e., not thinking about work) and its implications for pilot accommodation and recovery. The review suggests that pilots accommodated in hotels located in or close to airports may be less able to psychologically detach from work during slips, with implications for recovery, fatigue, and ultimately safety. The paper presents a rationale for considering psychological detachment from work when evaluating the quality of hotels chosen for pilots.


Author(s):  
Benjamin Tromly

During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA undertook support of Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War II or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany. Yet the American engagement of Russian exiles had unpredictable outcomes. Drawing on recently declassified and previously untapped sources, Cold War Exiles and the CIA examines how the CIA’s Russian operations became entangled with the internal struggles of Russia abroad and also the espionage wars of the superpowers in divided Germany. What resulted was a transnational political sphere involving different groups of Russian exiles, American and German anti-communists, and spies operating on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Inadvertently, CIA’s patronage of Russian exiles forged a complex sub-front in the wider Cold War, demonstrating the ways in which the hostilities of the Cold War played out in ancillary conflicts involving proxies and non-state actors.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. e0201018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taurayi A. Tafuma ◽  
Nyikadzino Mahachi ◽  
Chengetai Dziwa ◽  
Peter Marowa ◽  
Tafara Moga ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Johannes Felix Simon Brachmann ◽  
Andreas Baumgartner ◽  
Peter Gege

The Calibration Home Base (CHB) is an optical laboratory designed for the calibration of imaging spectrometers for the VNIR/SWIR wavelength range. Radiometric, spectral and geometric calibration as well as the characterization of sensor signal dependency on polarization are realized in a precise and highly automated fashion. This allows to carry out a wide range of time consuming measurements in an ecient way. The implementation of ISO 9001 standards in all procedures ensures a traceable quality of results. Spectral measurements in the wavelength range 380–1000 nm are performed to a wavelength uncertainty of +- 0.1 nm, while an uncertainty of +-0.2 nm is reached in the wavelength range 1000 – 2500 nm. Geometric measurements are performed at increments of 1.7 µrad across track and 7.6 µrad along track. Radiometric measurements reach an absolute uncertainty of +-3% (k=1). Sensor artifacts, such as caused by stray light will be characterizable and correctable in the near future. For now, the CHB is suitable for the characterization of pushbroom sensors, spectrometers and cameras. However, it is planned to extend the CHBs capabilities in the near future such that snapshot hyperspectral imagers can be characterized as well. The calibration services of the CHB are open to third party customers from research institutes as well as industry.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Agus Sunaryo
Keyword(s):  

Radikalisme saat ini telah menjadi isu utama dalam diskursus keislaman kontemporer. Berdirinya Negara Islam Iraq dan Suriah dianggap sebagai ancaman bagi sebagian kalangan di sisi lain, namun juga menjadi bukti bahwa radikalisme benar-benar nyata dan kuat di lain sisi. Indonesia menjadi salah satu negara yang tidak pernah sepi dari diskusi dan praktik radikalisme. Tertangkapnya banyak aktivis radikalis, belum mampu meredam laju gerak radikalisme Islam di Indonesia. Propaganda-propaganda kekerasan, intimidatif, dan intoleran menjadi pemandangan yang kerapkali mewarnai mimbar-mimbar khutbah, diskusi-diskusi keagamaan, atau bahkan spanduk dan pamfllet yang mudah dijumpai di hampir seluruh wilayah di Indonesia. Dalam konteks ini masjid sering dijadikan tempat untuk sosialisasi dan kaderisasi kelompok Islam radikal. Posisinya yang banyak dikunjungi orang, dianggap efektif untuk proyek ideologisasi. Apalagi orientasi orang mendatangi masjid, umumnya adalah untuk mendapatkan “pencerahan”spiritual. Hal ini tentunya selaras dengan karakter ideologisasi Islam radikal yang menawarkan konsep kekerasan dan intoleran dengan balutan pesan-pesan keagamaan. Artikel ini akan mencoba mengkaji proyek ideologisasi Islam radikal yang memanfaat masjid sebagai home base kegiatannya. Lebih dari itu, apa yang seharusnya menjadi focus kebijakan pemerintah untuk menyelamatkan masjid dan membendung laju gerak radikalisme Islam juga menjadi bagian tak terpisahkan dari kajian artikel ini. The radicalism, at this time, has been prominent issue in islamic contemporary discourse. Standing of Islamic state on Iraq and Syiria has been regarded as threat by some people in one side, but also been a proof that radicalism very obvious and stronght in other side. Indonesia has been one country that discuss and practice of radicalism never quiet at there. Getting caught of some radical-activist, couldn’t stop moving of islamic radicalism in Indonesia. Propaganda’s of violent, intimidative, and intolerant, have been viewpoint that usually colored  the platform’s sermon, religious discusses, or also banner and pamphlet that was very easy to found it in near of all Indonesian district. Mosque, in this context, often to be place for socialization and forming of cadres of Islamic radicalist. It’s positioning that been visited by much people, regarderd as effective for ideological project.  Especially that people’s orientation come to the mosque is getting spiritual enlightenmet. It has been in harmony with ideological character of Islamic radicalism wich bargain a violent concept with covering of religious messages. This article will investigate ideological project of Islamic radicalism that exploit the mosque to be it’s home base activities. The policies of government that must been done for stopping Islamic radicalism also would investigated by this article.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Urraca Ruiz
Keyword(s):  

Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir as características do P&D transacional em países emergentes, a partir do ponto de vista das estratégias globais das grandes corporações transnacionais (GCTs) e das vantagens oferecidas pelos receptores, fazendo uma especial referência ao caso brasileiro. As tradicionais motivações para a internacionalização tecnológica baseadas na visão home-base tiveram que ser ampliadas para explicar a nova geografia da inovação voltada para países emergentes sob uma visão host-base. Os principais atrativos destes países são o tamanho de seus mercados, as especificidades de suas demandas e menores custos relativos de P&D compatíveis com níveis aceitáveis de qualidade de seus recursos tecnológicos. Indicadores recentes colocam o Brasil como receptor de investimentos líquidos em P&D, embora o direcionamento seja assimétrico entre setores e tecnologias. As potencialidades locais que o Brasil oferece poderiam representar uma fonte de criação de capacitação local, a partir da combinação de esforços internos e externos com políticas públicas de absorção de conhecimento.


1985 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 700-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Hutchings

For the most part, the history of Communist Party activity in Guangxi before 1949 is one of modest success in difficult circumstances. Guangxi was the home base of one of the most formidable military factions of the Kuomintang. In association with Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), provincial leaders Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Huang Shaoxiong – the “Guangxi Clique” – played a major part in planning and executing the April 1927 Party purge and thereafter, throughout the Republican era, proved bitter opponents of communism.


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