CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE LOGISTIC SUPPORT OF THE SOVIET ARMY IN THE AFGHAN WAR

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-339
Author(s):  
Gabriela-Florina NICOARĂ ◽  
Ionel BUCICĂ
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Military Doctrine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Logistic Support

Abstract: The reasons why Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s became the subject of disputes, articles, or even inspiration for the books of military analysts. The interest shown around this subject extended to the Soviet military doctrine, tactics, equipment, forces design (architecture), the number of military employees, the pursued purpose, etc. In this regard, in order to identify "lessons learned" possibly useful in the field of current logistical support, this article aims to analyze, from a logistical perspective, the Soviet effort during the 9 years of military actions taken in Afghanistan.

Sustainability Certification and Green Public Procurement: Ideals and Outcomes in a New Jersey School District

2021 ◽  
pp. 097340822110125
Author(s):  
Cluny Mendez ◽  
Christopher L. Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
School District ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Green Public Procurement ◽  
The Subject

The implementation of sustainability and green public procurement (GPP) initiatives in school districts has been the subject of some debate; questions over definitions and programme goals have led to inconsistency and concerns about programme achievements. The legitimacy of programmes rests not only with the announcement of policy by officials, but with adherence to policy and staff buy-in. This study examines barriers districts face, and makes recommendations based upon district experience on ways to successfully implement sustainability and GPP initiatives. A review of the literature on GPP and legitimacy in the execution of public functions within the education domain begins the study. Major components relative to best practices for GPP programmes are studied through the review of GPP-related documents from a school district in New Jersey considered as an exemplar of such programmes. Analysis of an interview with the district’s representatives suggests that, despite the normative approval such programmes receive, and widespread understanding of the rationale for pursuing such initiatives, there remain critical failings in implementation of these programmes, stemming from education, resourcing of initiatives and prioritization of green procurement in relation to other district priorities. The study concludes with lessons learned from this case, which is important given its positioning within New Jersey as an exemplar and recommendations for future research where work in this area is needed.

A Novel Workflow for Geosteering a Horizontal Well in a Low Resistivity Contrast Anisotropic Environment: A Case Study in Semoga Field, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yessica Fransisca ◽  
Karinka Adiandra ◽  
Vinda Manurung ◽  
Laila Warkhaida ◽  
M. Aidil Arham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Horizontal Well ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Electrical Anisotropy ◽  
Anisotropy Ratio ◽  
Well Placement ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Low Resistivity ◽  
The Subject

Abstract This paper describes the combination of strategies deployed to optimize horizontal well placement in a 40 ft thick isotropic sand with very low resistivity contrast compared to an underlying anisotropic shale in Semoga field. These strategies were developed due to previously unsuccessful attempts to drill a horizontal well with multiple side-tracks that was finally drilled and completed as a high-inclined well. To maximize reservoir contact of the subject horizontal well, a new methodology on well placement was developed by applying lessons learned, taking into account the additional challenges within this well. The first approach was to conduct a thorough analysis on the previous inclined well to evaluate each formation layer’s anisotropy ratio to be used in an effective geosteering model that could better simulate the real time environment. Correct selections of geosteering tools based on comprehensive pre-well modelling was considered to ensure on-target landing section to facilitate an effective lateral section. A comprehensive geosteering pre-well model was constructed to guide real-time operations. In the subject horizontal well, landing strategy was analysed in four stages of anisotropy ratio. The lateral section strategy focused on how to cater for the expected fault and maintain the trajectory to maximize reservoir exposure. Execution of the geosteering operations resulted in 100% reservoir contact. By monitoring the behaviour of shale anisotropy ratio from resistivity measurements and gamma ray at-bit data while drilling, the subject well was precisely landed at 11.5 ft TVD below the top of target sand. In the lateral section, wellbore trajectory intersected two faults exhibiting greater associated throw compared to the seismic estimate. Resistivity geo-signal and azimuthal resistivity responses were used to maintain the wellbore attitude inside the target reservoir. In this case history well with a low resistivity contrast environment, this methodology successfully enabled efficient operations to land the well precisely at the target with minimum borehole tortuosity. This was achieved by reducing geological uncertainty due to anomalous resistivity data responding to shale electrical anisotropy. Recognition of these electromagnetic resistivity values also played an important role in identifying the overlain anisotropic shale layer, hence avoiding reservoir exit. This workflow also helped in benchmarking future horizontal well placement operations in Semoga Field. Technical Categories: Geosteering and Well Placement, Reservoir Engineering, Low resistivity Low Contrast Reservoir Evaluation, Real-Time Operations, Case Studies

Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Siracusa
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Great War

Diplomacy: A Very Short Introduction introduces the subject of diplomatic history, the critical study of the management of relations between nation-states. Based on significant historical case studies—the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath Versailles, the personal summitry behind the night Stalin and Churchill divided Europe, George W. Bush and the coming of the Iraq War, and diplomacy in the age of globalization—there are concrete examples of diplomacy in action while locating the universal role of negotiations. Through these examples we can see what the key element of success is. The lessons learned provide a road map to navigating the challenges of 21st-century diplomacy.

The future of travel

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Simon Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Travel

Most experts would agree that recovery from the COVID-19 crisis will be slow (see Figure 6.2), in large part due to the impact that the crisis has had on the global travel and tourism industry (Romei, 2020). Until there is vaccine, the virus will influence nearly every sector of travel from transportation, destination and resorts, to the accommodations, attractions, events and restaurants. The first section of this chapter looks at the future for these different sectors, a future heavily influenced by technology and a heightened emphasis on health and safety. The second part of the chapter focuses on a theme that has been prevalent in this book – the need for adaptability or ‘COVID-aptability’. Consumer demands and behavior will be permanently altered by the pandemic, and all stakeholders in the travel industry will need to adapt. One part of adaptability is redesigning servicescapes – a necessity for many after the lockdown, and this is the subject of the penultimate section of the chapter. The conclusion looks at lessons learned from this crisis.

Moving In-Frame

2022 ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Andi Johnson ◽  
Richard Lessey ◽  
Rebeca Ramos O'Reilly ◽  
Jessica Shi
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Other ◽  
Learning Engagement ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Further Development

The researchers explored the dual experience of individuals who are both taking dance and movement classes digitally at the same time as they are also teaching dance and movement classes digitally. By focusing on this duality through a series of interviews with practitioners, the researchers explore how the learner/educators do or do not adapt one set of skills into the other area of work and the lessons learned from this reflective practice. The results are analyzed and broken down into five sections: glitches of the practice, reflective practice, active learning, engagement, and reframing communication. Through further analysis, the researchers explore possibilities for shifting the mindset around digital education methods. The researchers then offer suggestions for further development in the field and where further research can expand on the subject area.

scholarly journals Extracranial-intracranial bypass for ischemic cerebrovascular disease: what have we learned from the Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study?

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. E9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Reynolds ◽  
Colin P. Derdeyn ◽  
Robert L. Grubb ◽  
William J. Powers ◽  
Gregory J. Zipfel
Keyword(s):  
Cerebrovascular Disease ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Carotid Occlusion ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Extracranial Carotid Artery ◽  
Arterial Bypass ◽  
Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease ◽  
The Subject

Extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) arterial bypass has been used in the treatment of various neurosurgical pathologies including skull base tumors requiring sacrifice of a large intracranial artery; complex intracranial aneurysms requiring trapping; and distal revascularization, moyamoya disease, and symptomatic cerebrovascular stenoocclusive disease. The latter indication has been the subject of intense investigations in several large randomized controlled trials, most recently the Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study (COSS). In the present literature review and synthesis, the authors examine the current evidence available for EC-IC arterial bypass for the treatment of ischemic cerebrovascular disease including both extracranial carotid artery occlusive disease and intracranial atherosclerotic disease. They focus particular attention on EC-IC arterial bypass for the treatment of symptomatic hemodynamic cerebral ischemia and how lessons learned from the COSS might guide future investigations into the treatment of this disease.

Mutual AID, Environmental Policy, and the Regulation of Faroese Pilot Whaling

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Fielding ◽  
John E. Davis ◽  
Benedict E. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Pilot Whale ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
The Subject

This paper examines the evolution of unwritten regulations and formal government policies in the control of the Faroese pilot whale drive, or grindadráp. This form of whaling has occurred in the Faroe Islands since at least the sixteenth century, probably much longer. Informed by theories of anarchist geography, we discuss specific policies, both formal and informal, regulating when and where whales may be pursued, actions of whalers in boats and onshore, equipment permitted for use, and the distribution of meat and blubber from the hunt that have developed over the centuries in response to internal or external pressures and calls for change. Our discussion gives special attention to a recent change in the regulation of grin-dadráp, namely the requirement, beginning in 2015, that whalers who participate in the killing process—as distinct from other aspects of whaling—be certified as having attended a training course on the subject. We conclude with a discussion of lessons learned through a reading of anarchist geographies as applied to the topic at hand.

COMBINING MODELING WITH RESPONSE IN POTENTIAL DEEP WELL BLOWOUT: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THUNDER HORSE1

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 719-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
CJ Beegle-Krause ◽  
Walton (Tad) Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Missing Data ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Deep Well ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Health And Safety Issues

ABSTRACT In May of 2003 a drilling riser break at a BP development well in 6015 feet (1875 m) of water in the Gulf of Mexico initiated a dialog between BP responders and NOAA/HAZMAT modelers about the potential consequences of a deep well blowout. Human health and safety issues were the key concern for BP responders, particularly those planning potential on water operations. Where might the gas surface? Would the natural gas (propane and methane) at the water's surface pose an explosion or asphyxiation hazard? Was there a potential for the gas bubbles to sink any of the response vessels? These discussions did not have as cut-and-dry answers as either BP or NOAA would have preferred. During the planning for BP's attempt to bring the well back into operation, the General NOAA Oil Modeling Environment (GNOME) with the Clarkson Deep Oil and Gas model (CDOG, Zheng et al 2003, Chen and Yapa 2003 and Yapa and Cheng 2004) were run. The data required for modeling a deep spill is more extensive then for a surface oil trajectory and was the subject of much discussion between BP responders and NOAA/HAZMAT. As a result, NOAA/HAZMAT created a data summary request sheet (Appendix 1) to guide the BP responders in what data was needed, and provided a point of discussion for implications of missing data.

Giving contours to invisible figures: Post-reflections on Migrations. Narratives. Movements. exhibition at Villa des Arts, Rabat

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Yvon Langué
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Curatorial Practice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theoretical Apparatus

Noticing the growing precariousness of migrants in Morocco, ‘Giving contours to invisible figures’ is a commentary on the lessons learned from my collaboration with ‘Arts for Advocacy’ on Migrations. Narratives. Movements., an exhibition held at Villa des Arts, Rabat. The article engages with migration in the broad sense, and how it is addressed by curatorial practice. It discusses the display’s theoretical apparatus in the light of bold uncertainties due to the invisibility of the figure of the migrant, and the apparent disjuncture of my expectations with regard to the Moroccan context. I argue that the subject of migration calls for a widening of the borders of curatorial practice, at least in Morocco, precisely because of the geographies of mobility, heterogeneous ideas of globalization and common sense overlap.

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