Complex systems often exhibit shear banding—the coexistence of two different states characterized by their internal structuring and local rates. For some them, the heterogeneous flow corresponds to final steady-state response, while for others, banding can only be transient, structure healing back a homogeneous in ultimate steady state after long-lived periods. In order explain diversity observ...

Corresponding author: Mr James Fielding, Communicable Disease Control Branch, Department of Human Services, PO Box 6, Rundle Mall, Adelaide SA 5000. Telephone: +61 8 8226 7177. Facsimile: +61 8 8226 7187. Email: james.fi [email protected] On 3 September 2003 the Australian Salmon ella Reference Centre in Adelaide notifi ed the Communicable Disease Control Branch, Department of Human Services...

adar systems realized with a phased array antenna offer several advantages over systems using a conventional parabolic dish or mechanically steered antenna. These advantages include the production of directive beams that can be rapidly repositioned electronically, the generation of multiple independently steered antenna beams from a common aperture, the ability to make antennas conformal with t...

The construction industry generates a vast amount of information and knowledge that may need to be organized more efficiently to facilitate dissemination and utilization by the communities of practitioners. The objective of this paper is to explore the state and extent of information management and knowledge management in the Malaysian construction industry. This research was carried out by fie...

WARSIM, the U.S. Army’s next-generation simulation and intended land component of JSIMS is supposed to replace several existing “legacy” simulations. With the cancellation of JSIMS as a result of technological and organizational hurdles, we review the literature documenting the development of WARSIM’s requirements specifications; analyze some particularly challenging requirements manifested in ...

The doargus reduction task is specialized for the extraction, flat fielding, fiber throughput correction, wavelength calibration, and sky subtraction of Argus fiber spectra. It is a command language script which collects and combines the functions and parameters of many general purpose tasks to provide a single complete data reduction path. The task provides a degree of guidance, automation, an...

Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS) manages the development, systems integration, acquisition, testing, fielding, modernization and sustainment of the U.S. Army’s ground combat systems to provide world-class, affordable and relevant capabilities to soldiers and marines. Systems include the Abrams main battle tank, Bradley Family of Vehicles (FoV), self-propelled howitzers, ...

Tourniquets have been called powerful lifesaving devices by some authors, whereas others say they cause more harm than good. Given recent emergency tourniquet developments in scientific design of devices, widespread user training, modern doctrine based on evidence, and thorough fielding to users within an integrated trauma system with rapid evacuation, tourniquets have shown minor morbidity and...