T o evaluate whether public involvement on a national forest district fairly represents the public's values, this article proposes four hypothesis tests. First, it is hypothesized that public-invo1l)ement programs operute according to a participatory democracy logic, in which broad cross sections o f the public participate in public involvement opportunities. A second hypothesis is tested that ...

PLANNER is a language f o r p r o v i n g theorems and m a n i p u l a t i n g models in a r o b o t . The language i s b u i l t ou t o f a number o f p rob lem s o l v i n g p r i m i t i v e s t o g e t h e r w i t h a h i e r a r c h i c a l c o n t r o l s t r u c t u r e . S ta tements can b e a s s e r t e d and perhaps l a t e r w i t h d r a w n a s t h e s t a t e o f t he w o r l d c...

In this work, a multi-level decision fusion strategy is proposed which weighs the Value of Information (VoI) against the intended functions of a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system. This paper presents a multi-level approach for three different maintenance strategies in which the performance of the SHM systems is evaluated against its intended functions. Level 1 diagnosis results in damag...

Localization is a general-purpose representational technique for partitioning a problem into subprob-lems. A localized problem-solver searches several smaller search spaces, one for each subproblem. Unlike most methods of partitioning, however, localiza-tion allows for subproblems that overlap { i.e. multiple search spaces may be involved in constructing shared pieces of the overall plan. In th...

In this paper will be presented a methodology for implementation of the Line Impedance Stabilization Network (LISN), of commutable symmetric kind, as the specified on Standard IEC CISPR 16-1, using low cost easily acquirable components in the electro-electronic business. The Line Impedance Stabilization Network is used for conducted EMI tests in equipment’s witch current is not above 16 A.

In everyday work environments, systems for work evolve constantly in response to changing environments, the need to overcome technical and social obstacles, or out of the desire by individuals to try something new or satisfy their curiosity. This proposal briefly reviews some emergent design activities, namely patchwork prototyping and a recent trend in academic computing for adopting and modif...

The British House of Lords is generally seen as an unimportant political actor. It is unelected and has a formal veto over only very limited forms of legislation. According to Lijphart this gives the UK a system of ‘weak bicameralism’, and contributes to its position as a majoritarian democracy. The alternative classification system offered by Tsebelis treats the UK as essentially unicameral, w...

Emergent literacy consists of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to reading and writing. This article offers a preliminary typology of children's emergent literacy skills, a review of the evidence that relates emergent literacy to reading, and a review of the evidence for linkage between children's emergent literacy environments and the development of emergen...