| Genome, Functional Gene Annotation, and Nuclear Transformation of the Heterokont Oleaginous Alga Nannochloropsis oceanica CCMP1779 |
15 Nov 2012 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Astrid Vieler; Guangxi Wu; Chia-Hong Tsai; Blair Bullard; Adam J Cornish; Christopher Harvey; Ida-Barbara Reca; Chelsea Thornburg; Rujira Achawanantakun; Christopher J Buehl; MICHIGAN STATE UNIV EAST LANSING DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
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 | Unicellular marine algae have promise for providing sustainable and scalable biofuel feedstocks, although no single species has emerged as a preferred organism. Moreover, adequate molecular and genetic resources prerequisite for the rational engineering of marine algal feedstocks are lacking for most candidate species. Heterokonts of the genus Nannochloropsis naturally have high cellular oil content and are already in use for industrial production of high-value lipid products. First success in applying ... |
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| PTSD and Substance Abuse |
Jul 2012 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Lisa Najavits; TREATMENT INNOVATIONS LLC NEWTON CENTER MA
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| Substance use disorders (SUD) and Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are some of the most prominent psychiatric disorders among Service Members (SMs), including the Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) cohort. These disorders sometimes go untreated due to SMs lack of awareness, access to care, or stigma about accessing care. Seeking Safety (SS) has been established as an effective model for co-occurring SUD/PTSD. The purpose of this study is ... |
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| Analysis of Forensic Super Timelines |
14 Jun 2012 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen J Esposito; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| As the use and adoption of networked electronic devices grows, their use in conjunction with crimes also increases. Extracting the probative evidence from these devices requires experienced digital forensics examiners. These examiners use several specialized tools that interpret the raw binary data present in digital media. Once the evidentiary artifacts are collected, one of the examiners goals is to assemble a narrative that describes when events occurred based on the ... |
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| DOD Business Systems Modernization: Governance Mechanisms for Implementing Management Controls Need to Be Improved |
Jun 2012 |
56 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie C Melvin; Neelaxi Lakhmani; Mark Bird; Debra Conner; Rebecca Eyler; Michael Holland; Anh Le; Donald Sebers; Jennifer Stavros-Turner; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| DOD is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world, and is entrusted with more taxpayer dollars than any other federal department or agency. For fiscal year 2013, the department requested approximately $613.9 billion $525.4 billion in spending authority for its base operations and an additional $88.5 billion to support overseas contingency operations, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan. In support of its military operations, DOD ... |
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| U.S. COIN Doctrine: Betting the Future on a Too Distant Past |
17 May 2012 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher J Byrd; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| While the outcome of the Iraq war seems to have validated the U.S. Army's counterinsurgency manual, FM 3-24, the war in Afghanistan seems to indicate there are fundamental problems associated with its historical principles and concepts. Dr. Kilcullen and Dr. Gorka in An Actor-centric Theory of War: Understanding the Difference Between COIN and Counterinsurgency claim that the historical cases upon which the COIN doctrine was based were too limited and ... |
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| Scalability of Robotic Controllers: An Evaluation of Controller Options-Experiment III |
Apr 2012 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
Rodger A Pettitt; Christian B Carstens; Elizabeth S Redden; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD HUMAN RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING DIRECTORATE
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| This experiment is the third in a series to investigate scaling robotic controllers for use by dismounted warfighters. A 2 -2 within-subjects design crossing two controllers (game controller [GC] and virtual joystick [VJ]) with two levels of robotic autonomy (manual control [MC] and click to navigate [CN]) was used. Twenty-two Soldiers conducted reconnaissance tasks on a 200-m course. As a secondary task, Soldiers were told to report course times when ... |
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| ALLTEM System User's Manual, Munitions Management Projects, ALLTEM Multi-Axis Electromagnetic Induction System Demonstration and Validation, Version 1.0 |
05 Mar 2012 |
196 pages |
| Authors:
Theodore H Asch; ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM OFFICE (DOD) ARLINGTON VA
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| An advanced multi-axis electromagnetic induction system, ALLTEM, has been specifically designed and developed for detection and discrimination of unexploded ordnance (UXO) by the U.S. Geological Survey. This document is a combined user s manual for operating the ALLTEM including data acquisition with navigation, data pre-processing in a customized LabView interface, and finally data processing from within Geosoft Oasis Montaj. This ALLTEM software manual is a supplement to the on-line tutorials ... |
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| Validation of Chlorine and Oxygen Isotope Ratio Analysis to Differentiate Perchlorate Sources and to Document Perchlorate Biodegradation |
Dec 2011 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
Paul Hatzinger; J K Boehlke; Neil C Sturchio; Baohua Gu; ILLINOIS UNIV AT CHICAGO
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| Perchlorate in the envirotm1ent is derived from both synthetic and natural sources. Synthetic perchlorate salts have been widely used as oxidants by the military and aerospace industry. A variety of conm1ercial products also contain synthetic perchlorate. In addition to synthetic sources, natural perchlorate from both Chilean fetiilizers and indigenous sources represents a potentially large source of perchlorate in groundwater and drinking water in the U.S. The key objective of the ... |
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| Multiadaptive Plan (MAP) IMRT to Accommodate Independent Movement of the Prostate and Pelvic Lymph Nodes |
Dec 2011 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
Ping Xia; CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION OH
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| We found that the rotational shifts detected by aligning implanted markers between the planning images and the verification images may not determine the true rotation of the prostate. Ignoring these detected rotational shifts may lead to erroneous errors of localizing the prostate. We found that the prostate rotation can be compensated with corrections made in translational shifts, achieving improved geometric and dosimetric evaluation indices. Furthermore, we found that when the ... |
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| MMRP Guidance Document for Soil Sampling of Energetics and Metals |
Oct 2011 |
124 pages |
| Authors:
Susan Taylor; Thomas F Jenkins; Hugh Rieck; Susan Bigl; Alan D Hewitt; Marianne E Walsh; Michael R Walsh; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
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| This manual gives guidance on how to collect and process soil samples to quantify explosives, propellants, and metals from nonoperational ranges under remedial investigation. This document outlines how to estimate the average concentration of energetic compounds and metals in soils and determine the error in the estimated concentration. Since this guidance is for a remedial investigation, we assume that the Site Investigation has identified areas that need further study. |
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| Organizational Transformation: Military Departments Can Improve Their Enterprise Architecture Programs |
Sep 2011 |
78 pages |
| Authors:
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| DOD is a massive and complex organization entrusted with more taxpayer dollars than any other federal department or agency. Organizationally, the department includes the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military departments, numerous defense agencies and field activities, and various unified combatant commands that are responsible for either specific geographic regions or specific functions. (See fig. 1 for a simplified depiction of DOD s ... |
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| Population Enrichment and Isolation with Magnetic Sorting |
Sep 2011 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Joshua M Kogot; Joseph M Pennington; Deborah A Sarkes; Dimitra N Stratis-Cullum; Paul M Pellegrino; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD SENSORS AND ELECTRON DEVICES DIRECTORATE
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| Manual and semi-automated sorting methods (MACS) provide a high-throughput, less costly method for sample enrichment compared to fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS). Magnetic sorting methods use commercially available magnetic beads with many surface modifications available for customizable sorting methods. In this note, we outline the methods for magnetic cell sorting using manual and benchtop magnets (MACS), as well as a micromagnetic sorter (MMS) that uses diposable, microfluidic cartridges. Along with ... |
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| Remote Munitions Deployment from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle |
30 Aug 2011 |
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| Authors:
Jeremy Gray; James Mason; Patrick Griffin; Charles Dean; ARMY TANK AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER WARREN MI
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| High-risk missions often entail ground forces being required to manually emplace and deploy obstacle breaching munitions to generate a footpath through antipersonnel obstacles. A safer method for obstacle breaching is highly desired. Implementation of UGVs with live munitions has been demonstrated to mitigate risk by generating an increased stand-off distance while operating the system from a concealed position. This paper presents the research, development, and testing results of the integration ... |
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| Supervised Learning in CINets |
Jul 2011 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Paul Bruhn; Jeffrey Weinschenk; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV STATE COLLEGE APPLIED RESEARCH LAB
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| Continuous Inference Networks (CINets), a form of multilayer fuzzy value networks allow computation with fuzzy values in concise structures, are capable of universal function approximation, and are readily interpretable through natural language, aiding maintenance modification, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. However CINets have been reliant on Subject Matter Expertise (SME) and manual tuning to realize optimal performance, limiting their applicability. With ONR support[i], ARL has developed a supervised learning process for ... |
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| Optimizing Marine Security Guard Assignments |
JUN 2011 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
Maro D. Enoka; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| The Marine Corps Embassy Security Group (MCESG) assigns 1,500 Marine Security Guards (MSGs) to 149 embassy detachments annually. While attempting to fulfill several billet requirements, MCESG strives to balance MSG experience levels at each embassy detachment and assign MSGs to their preferred posts. The current assignment process is accomplished manually by three Marines and takes more than 6,000 hours per year. This thesis presents the Marine Security Guard Assignment Tool ... |
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| Two-Sided Matching in Hierarchical Organizations-An Application for the Assignment of Military Personnel |
JUN 2011 |
287 pages |
| Authors:
Paul A. Robards; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Many large organizations rely on manual assignment processes, despite the theory of bounded rationality indicating that time and cognitive constraints would limit the quality of assignments. This research used participant experiments to explore the effect of information load on assignment quality: participants, motivated by induced value theory, performed the role of decision makers; and information load was identified by the number of personnel requiring assignment and the number of attributes ... |
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| An Analysis of Adopting RFID in the Brazilian Air Force Uniform Sales System |
JUN 2011 |
81 pages |
| Authors:
Roberto Q. Ratto; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
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| The Brazilian Air Force Uniform Sales System (USS) is experiencing continuous sales growth in its points of sale at Air Force bases and an intensive use of labor force in its operations, which have led the Subdirectorate of Supply (SDAB), the USS Central Organization, to designate Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as a viable option to improve USS operations, currently performed manually. This project assesses the current state of USS processes, ... |
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| Helicopter Maritime Environment Trainer: Maintenance Manual (Simulateur D'Entrainement Virtuel pour Helicoptere Maritime: Manual D'Entretien) |
Jun 2011 |
118 pages |
| Authors:
Leo Boutette; Ken Ueno; Jason Dielschneider; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TORONTO (CANADA)
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| The Helicopter Maritime Environment Trainer (HelMET) was developed by Defence R&D Canada - Toronto (DRDC Toronto) for training helicopter pilots to land on the flight deck of a Canadian Patrol Frigate (CPF) in a virtual environment. The HelMET was installed at 12 Wing, Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Shearwater, Nova Scotia, Canada [reference: Summary per document cited in next paragraph]. DRDC Toronto Document: CR2002-028 Atlantis Document: ED997-0000369 titled Helicopter Maritime Environment ... |
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| Helicopter Maritime Environment Trainer: Operator Manual (Simulateur D'Entrainement Virtuel Maritime: Manuel de L'Operateur) |
Jun 2011 |
244 pages |
| Authors:
Leo Boutette; Ken Ueno; Jason Dielschneider; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TORONTO (CANADA)
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| The Helicopter Maritime Environment Trainer (HelMET) was developed by Defence R&D Canada - Toronto (DRDC Toronto) for training helicopter pilots to land on the flight deck of a Canadian Patrol Frigate (CPF) in a virtual environment. The HelMET was installed at 12 Wing, Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Shearwater, Nova Scotia, Canada. [reference: Summary per document cited in next paragraph]. DRDC Toronto Document: CR2002-022 Atlantis Document: ED997-00368 titled Helicopter Maritime Environment ... |
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| Developing Intelligent Leaders - A Look at the Reserve Officer Training Corps Program |
19 MAY 2011 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
Robert L. McCormick; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| Over the last two decades, the United States Army has funded boards, panels, and studies that have recommended an emphasis on cognitive development training over technical training. This research reviews the current Reserve Officers Training Corp Program of Instruction and assesses its ability to develop and educate Reserve Officers Training Corps cadets to be intelligent leaders capable of critical thinking upon commissioning. The research will determine whether or not The ... |
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| ConfidenceSets for Network Structure |
May 2011 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Edoardo M Airoldi; David S Choi; Patrick J Wolfe; HARVARD UNIV CAMBRIDGE MA OFFICE FOR RESEARCH CONTRACTS
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| Latent variable models are frequently used to identify structure in dichotomous network data, in part because they give rise to a Bernoulli product likelihood that is both well understood and consistent with the notion of exchangeable random graphs. In this article we propose conservative confidence sets that hold with respect to these underlying Bernoulli parameters as a function of any given partition of network nodes, enabling us to assess estimates ... |
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| Model-Based Assurance of Diagnostic Procedures for Complex Systems |
Oct 2010 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Tolga Kurtoglu; Robyn Lutz; Martin S Feather; NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION MOFFETT FIELD CA AMES RESEARCH CENTER
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| Verifying diagnostic procedures for complex systems is hard and labor-intensive. Usually this verification is accomplished primarily through extensive review of the procedures by experts. We aim to augment this review process by using insights from comparing the diagnostic steps described in the procedural definitions with diagnostics information derived from existing models of the system. These comparisons offer various conformance checks between the manually developed diagnostic procedures and the diagnostic trees ... |
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| (U) XVal-He-4B: A Maximum Permissible Tissue Tension Table for Real-Time Thalmann Algorithm Support of Constant 1.3 ATM PO2-in-Helium Diving to 200 FSW |
Apr 2010 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
David J Doolette; Wayne A Gerth; NAVY EXPERIMENTAL DIVING UNIT PANAMA CITY FL
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| The Thalmann Algorithm parameterized with the XVal-He-4 Maximum Permissible Tissue Tension (MPTT) table is a candidate real-time algorithm for use in the Navy Dive Computer (NDC) to support MK 16 MOD 1 He-O2 diving to maximum depths of 200 fsw. However, XVal-He-4 was developed specifically to generate the U.S. Navy Diving Manual MK 16 MOD 1 He-O2 decompression tables to 200 fsw, and not for real-time applications. The XVal-He-4-Thalmann Algorithm ... |
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| Addendum to the Principles And Practices Manual. Loading Rates and Impacts of Substrate Delivery for Enhanced Anaerobic Bioremediation |
JAN 2010 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Bruce Henry; ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM OFFICE (DOD) ARLINGTON VA
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| A number of improvements and advances for the enhanced in situ bioremediation of chlorinated solvents have been made since the Tri-Services Principles and Practices of Enhanced Anaerobic Bioremediation of Chlorinated Solvents guidance document was released in August 2004 (Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment [AFCEE] et al., 2004). Numerous demonstration and full-scale applications have been completed, yet challenges to successful implementation of the technology remain (Simpkin and Norris, ... |
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| Multiadaptive Plan (MAP) IMRT to Accommodate Independent Movement of the Prostate and Pelvic Lymph Nodes |
May-2009 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
Ping Xia; CALIFORNIA UNIV SAN FRANCISCO
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| We found that the direct image based and contour based alignment methods are both reliable to detect translational setup errors for patients with prostate cancer. In the longitudinal direction, the measurement uncertainties are slightly increased with the direct image alignment method when compared to the contour alignment method. Since the manual adjustments are necessary with the both alignment methods, the results of this study may subject to inter-observer variations. Further ... |
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| The Inadequacy of MCDP 1-0 Operations |
20-Feb-2009 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
B B Roy; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| The combat experience of Global War on Terror veterans has affected changes to the philosophy and terms of Marines since MCDP 1-0 was published in 2001. The new philosophy and terms are manifestations of Marine innovation. This innovation compensates for doctrinal guidance that has become insufficient over the eight years since the current Operations was published. Inadequacies in Operations detract from the Marine Corps' ability to fight modern wars because ... |
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| Blended Inverse Kinematics: Delta3D System Utilization |
DEC 2008 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Guerrero; Chris Darken; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MODELING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SIMULATION (MOVES)
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| Traditional inverse kinematics systems are riddled with issues that make their use in real-time simulations prohibitive. Foremost, the computational costs associated with these methods are too high to make their widespread use practical. Furthermore, their usage typically results in the synthesis of animations that fail to impart the sense of weight and timing that would be present in either motion captured or artist created forward kinematic animation. This is a ... |
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| Transient Thermal Response of a Projectile Misfired in a Mortar Tube |
01-Sep-2008 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Pasquale Carluuci; Jerry Potucek; ARMY ARMAMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER PICATINNY ARSENAL NJ
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| Valuable insight into the response of various projectile features under misfire conditions can be drawn from an accurate finite element analysis. This is important since it can model the response and performance of safety critical features including vent plugs and propellant cook-off times. This paper describes the approach used to model the transient thermal analysis of a misfired Precision Guided Mortar Munition (PGMM) in a mortar tube. The analysis of ... |
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| The Holistic Targeting (HOT) Methodology as the Means to Improve Information Operations (IO) Target Development and Prioritization |
01-Sep-2008 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher S Ieva; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Joint Publication 3-13 Information Operations (IO) states that both IO planning and targeting should be fully integrated with all joint planning and targeting efforts. However, this thesis research with IO Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on IO targeting and practice suggests the existence of a fracture in the integration process. The most challenging doctrinal, technical, and practical integration challenge stems from the second phase of the Joint Targeting Cycle: Target ... |
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| Applying Automated Theorem Proving to Computer Security |
MAR 2008 |
130 pages |
| Authors:
Kelly McElroy; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF GRADUATE COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| While more and more data is stored and accessed electronically, better access control methods need to be implemented for computer security. Formal modelling and analysis have been successfully used in certain areas of computer systems, such as verifying the security properties of cryptographic and authentication protocols. However, formal models for computer systems in cyberspace, like networks, have hardly advanced. A highly regarded graduate textbook cites the Take-Grant model created in ... |
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| Army SBIR, Interim Funding Final Report on Contract W911NF-07-C-0022 (Lumidigm, Inc.) |
30-Sep-2007 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Rowe; LUMIDIGM INC ALBUQUERQUE NM
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| The major objective during this performance period was to collect a set of whole-hand data on a significantly larger population of volunteers than collected during Phase I of this program. This expanded dataset will be used to further develop and refine whole hand processing algorithms. The larger data set will also provide statistically stronger results. These results will be incorporated into a paper that will be presented and published in ... |
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| UH-60 BIM Blanket Tap Test Evaluation |
22 SEP 2007 |
2 pages |
| Authors:
NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING LATROBE PA
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| Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD), Corpus Christi, Texas, inspects the outer mold layer (OML) of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter rotor blades for voids and delaminations. This process requires inspection of the blade from fore to aft and from rotor to blade tip. The current inspection process requires a technician to perform a manual "Tap" test of the blade using a small, specialized hammer. During the tapping of the blade, ... |
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| Marine Mammal Necropsy: An Introductory Guide for Stranding Responders and Field Biologists |
SEP 2007 |
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| Authors:
Katie R. Pugliares; Andrea Bogomolni; Kathleen M. Touhey; Sarah M. Herzig; Charles T. Harry; Michael J. Moore; WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
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 | This necropsy manual is designed to establish a base level of profiency in marine mammal necropsy techniques. It is written for stranding network members who do not have a formal pathobiological training and have limited knowledge of anatomy. Anatomical and pathological jargon has been kept to a minimum. This manual is divided into six sections: preliminary data, sample management, pinniped, small ceetacean, large whale (at sea and on the beach), ... |
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| Development of an Ultralight Pulse Gas Metal ARC Welding System for Shipyard Applications |
27 JUL 2007 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Neil D. Fichtelberg; GENERAL DYNAMICS GROTON CT ELECTRIC BOAT DIV
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| A significant cost in shipbuilding is setup during unit erection and outfitting to support welding operations. For small welding jobs such as hanger and tack welding, the labor associated with equipment relocation and setup can be a large part of the total cost of welding. This is primarily due to the need to move large and cumbersome welding equipment and cables through confined structures. As a result, many hangers and ... |
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| Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBIE) |
Jun-2007 |
195 pages |
| Authors:
E W East; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER CHAMPAIGN IL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB
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| The Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBIE) specification denotes how information may be captured during design and construction and provided to facility operators. COBIE eliminates the current process of transferring massive amounts of paper documents to facility operators after construction has been completed. COBIE eliminates the need for post-hoc as-built data capture and helps to reduce operational costs. This report describes the background and process used to create and implement ... |
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| Static Reachability Analysis and Validation Regarding Security Policies Implemented via Packet Filters |
MAR 2007 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen M. Kantz; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The ability to statically determine what kinds of packets can be exchanged between two hosts on a network is desirable to those who design and operate networks but this is a difficult and complex problem. Factors affecting reachability analysis are packet filters routing policies and packet transformations. The number of variables within and among networks is intractable for manual computation. A proposed solution to this mess is a tractable framework ... |
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| Effects of Crew-Aiding Behaviors on Soldier Performance During Target Engagement Tasks in a Virtual Battlefield Simulation |
FEB 2007 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Chuck H. Perala; Bruce S. Sterling; Steve Scheiner; Deborah Butler; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD HUMAN RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING DIRECTORATE
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| This research examined the impact of crew-aiding behaviors (CABs) on Soldier workload, stress, situation awareness, and performance in a laboratory setting. Specifically, this experiment examined the effectiveness of CABs designed to prioritize targets (based on threat level and proximity) and provide weapons platform and munition recommendations to service each target. This condition was compared with a NoCAB or manual condition in which participants performed the same task of prioritizing and ... |
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| Investigative Data Mining Toolkit: A Software Prototype for Visualizing, Analyzing and Destabilizing Terrorist Networks |
01 DEC 2006 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
Nasrullah Memon; Henrik L. Larsen; AALBORG UNIVERSITETSCENTER (DENMARK)
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| Knowledge about the structure and organization of terrorist networks is important for both terrorism investigation and the development of effective strategies to prevent terrorists attacks. However, except for network visualization, terrorist network analysis remains primarily a manual process. Existing tools do not provide advanced structural analysis techniques that allow extraction of network knowledge from large volumes of criminal-justice data. It is a well known fact that terrorist activities consist of ... |
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| Extraction of Relations between Entities from Texts by Learning Methods |
01 DEC 2006 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Benedicte Goujon; Julia Frigiere; THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ORSAY (FRANCE)
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| The aim of this work is to automatically extract structured information from unstructured texts, permitting their fusion in an intelligence application. In Thales, we have a knowledge management system (Ideliance) that permits us to manage entities and relations between them, but at present the user must manually capture this information. To automate such an extraction, we propose the use of a learning algorithm that we have developed after the study ... |
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| Determination of Percent Body Fat Using 3D Whole Body Laser Scanning: A Preliminary Investigation |
01 NOV 2006 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Todd N. Garlie; John P. Obusek; Brian Corner; Edward J. Zambraski; ARMY NATICK SOLDIER CENTER MA
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| The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of 3D whole body laser scanning technology to estimate body fat content. Percent body fat determined from current Army equations using manual and 3D laser scanning methods were compared to each other and to percent body fat obtained from Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA), used here as a reference method. Manual measurements of body lengths and circumferences, 3D whole body ... |
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| Software Integration for Simulation-Based Analysis and Robust Design Automation of HMMWV Rollover Behavior |
07-Oct-2006 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Subroto Gunawan; Panos Papalambros; Kuei-Yuan Chan; Mark Van den Brudnak; Gaetan Bergh; MICHIGAN UNIV ANN ARBOR
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| A multi-body dynamics model of the U.S. Army's High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) has been created using commercial software (ADAMS) to simulate and analyze the vehicle's rollover behavior. However, manual operation of such simulation and analysis for design purposes is prohibitively expensive and time consuming, limiting the engineers' ability to utilize the model fully and extract from it useful design information in a timely, cost-effective manner. To address this ... |
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| User Evaluation of Biospice |
OCT 2006 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Evyatar Av-Ron; John H. Byrne; TEXAS UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL AT HOUSTON DEPT OF NEUROBIOLOGY AND ANATOMY
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| The BioComp project was established to provide the system biology community with a tool, a computing environment called Bio- SPICE, to carry out data collection, model development and computer simulation. Usability studies of the Bio-SPICE Dashboard and seven simulators/editors: BioSketchPad/Charon, BioSpreadSheet/ESS, Jarnac/JDesigner, JigCell, Simpathica, BioNets and Pathway Builder were performed. The usability of each simulator was examined and the interoperability of the various tools using System Biology Markup Language (SBML) ... |
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| Army Leadership. Competent, Confident, and Agile |
Oct-2006 |
217 pages |
| Authors:
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON DC
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| As the keystone leadership manual for the United States Army, FM 6-22 establishes leadership doctrine, the fundamental principles by which Army leaders act to accomplish their mission and care for their people. FM 6-22 applies to officers, warrant officers, noncommissioned officers, and enlisted Soldiers of all Army components, and to Army civilians. From Soldiers in basic training to newly commissioned officers, new leaders learn how to lead with this manual ... |
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| Optimal Stationing of RADAR Pickets and Anti-Ballistic Missile Defenders for Long Range Surveillance and Tracking (LRS&T) and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Operations |
SEP 2006 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
Lawrence M. Repass; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| We describe major enhancements to the missile defense planning aid JOINT DEFENDER (JDEF). JDEF is the first system that shows how to evaluate and exploit new and anticipated improvements in interceptors, longrange surveillance and tracking capabilities, networked communications, and the ability of detecting platforms to cue intercepting ones downrange. We want to improve system-wide effectiveness, gauged here by the reduction of expected damage inflicted. We defend an asset list (DAL) ... |
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| Development and Implementation of an Interactive Uniform Regulations Manual for the United States Marine Corps |
SEP 2006 |
177 pages |
| Authors:
Michael H. Villar; Carsten Krause; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| There are two main purposes to this thesis study. First, we will deploy the principles of software development that we have learned through the Software Engineering track here at NPS and test its validity through the development of a real world system. This system will be a completely self sustaining prototype of a web design containing both the front end and back end requirements. Second, we will conduct a study ... |
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| Four-Hour Dives with Exercise While Breathing Oxygen Partial Pressure of 1.3 ATM |
SEP 2006 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
B. Shykoff; NAVY EXPERIMENTAL DIVING UNIT PANAMA CITY FL
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| The U.S. Navy Diving Manual authorizes divers to breathe oxygen for up to 240 minutes per day at depths of 20 feet of seawater (fs1w) or less but does not address the possible accumulation of effects over multiple days. We have conducted experimental four-hour dives with oxygen partial pressure (Po2) of approximately 1.4 atmospheres (atm)2,3 and have concluded that the limit of 240 minutes in 24 hours appears to be ... |
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| WEBTAS Software Life Cycle Development |
SEP 2006 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS COLORADO SPRINGS CO
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| Under this effort, ISS enhanced the WebTAS Data Gateway to improve the system's ability to maximize generic data access and data mapping across disparate data sources. Additional capabilities included the enhancements to the WebTAS Project Manager function to include features that were previously embedded within the View manager. In addition, there were significant improvements in the functionality and flexibility of the WEbTAS Timetable capability to allow the user full control ... |
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| Offline Forensic Analysis Of Microsoft Windows XP Physical Memory |
SEP 2006 |
91 pages |
| Authors:
John S. Schultz; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| The rise of cyber crimes combined with the recent use of computer viruses and malicious programs that reside only in volatile main memory demand further development of appropriate forensic tools. Existing forensic tools that analyze non-volatile memory are not capable of analyzing volatile memory and the few tools that are capable of detailed analysis of volatile memory are not openly available to the public. In this thesis, an open source ... |
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| Studies in Forecasting Upper-Level Turbulence |
SEP 2006 |
191 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher T. Kuhl; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF METEOROLOGY
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| Encounters with turbulence generated by complex topography, convection, or mechanical forcing present a significant threat to military aircraft operations. Properly forecasting the initiation, duration, and intensity of such encounters is a tremendous challenge to forecasters often resulting in the over-forecasting of turbulence. Over-forecasting the presence or intensity of turbulence can result in unnecessary mission delays, cancellations, and re-routing. The lack of observations and the fact that turbulence is a microscale ... |
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| Loss of Military Performance due to Individual NBC Protection in a Tropic Environment (belasting en prestatieverlies door individuele nbc-beschermin gin de tropen) |
AUG 2006 |
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| Authors:
P. A. Reffeltrath; T. K. Tan; TNO DEFENCE SECURITY AND SAFETY SOESTERBERG (NETHERLANDS)
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| Introduction As part of the program `Passive protection against NBC weapons' research was performed into the effects of NBC protection on military performance. This was mostly done using laboratory experiments. To obtain more knowledge about working in the field under NBC protection a field experiment was performed in a tropical climate. Methods This study was performed during field trials of the project `protection factor in the field', which was performed ... |
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