This paper outlines the efforts to introduce a proven GSS into two similar organizational contexts over a oneyear period. The installations, and subsequent technology transitions took place aboard two different US Navy ships. Using the principles of action research, the project began with interventions based on the Technology Transition Model (TTM). The goal of the interventions was to engender...

BACKGROUND Avalanches are a significant cause of winter recreational fatalities in mountain regions. The purpose of this study was to determine the relative contributions of trauma and asphyxia to avalanche deaths. METHODS We reviewed all avalanche fatalities between 1984 and 2005 that had been investigated by the offices of the British Columbia Coroners Service and the Chief Medical Examiner...

In this paper, we present how to construct DES-like S-boxes based on Boolean functions satisfying the Strict Avalanche Criterion and compare their cryptographic properties with those of DES S-boxes in various points of view. We found that our designed DES-like S-boxes exhibit better cryptographical properties than those of DES S-boxes.

s: Thematic Session – Landslide, Avalanche and Other Mass Movements 1 THEMATIC SESSION A2: LANDSLIDE, AVALANCHE AND OTHER MASS MOVEMENTS Chairperson: Dr. R. K. Bhandari Chairman, Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore, Tamil Nadu

The least well known structure of the Galaxy is its central region, because of the high extinction, the crowding and the confusion between disk and bulge sources along the line of sight. We show how the structure of the inner Galaxy and the dust distribution can be strongly constrained by using red clump stars as distance indicator. The results of this method applied on the deep near-infrared s...

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1400 (CARI-07C, 14°32.58’N, 61°27.55’W, 2745 m below seafloor) is located west of Martinique. Site U1400 was dedicated to the study of debris avalanche emplacement and associated erosional processes. The evolution of the active Montagne Pelée volcano on Martinique is characterized by three major flank collapse events (~0.1 Ma, ~25 ka, and ~9,000 years ago...

By 2008 detailed avalanche warning for the entire Norway is not available. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute only issues a general warning for large regions of the country for danger level 4 or 5, mainly based on automatic indexes integrated in the meteorological forecasting models. Regional and local avalanche warning are issued by the NGI on request of customers such as the railway or ro...

A laser pulser for a pulsed time-of-flight laser radar is presented. The pulser is constructed using a single avalanche transistor in order to keep the schematic simple and to avoid the problems encountered when connecting several avalanche transistors in parallel. The schematic of the laser pulser was optimized and it was noticed that the optical peak pulse power of the laser can be increased ...

Avalanche disasters are associated with significant monetary losses. It is thus crucial that avalanche risk assessments are based on a consistent and proper assessment of the uncertainties involved in the modelling of the avalanche runout zones and the estimations of the damage potential. We link a Bayesian network (BN) to a Geographic Information System (GIS) for avalanche risk assessment in o...