As the number of marine protected areas (MPAs) increases globally, so does the need to assess if MPAs are meeting their management goals. Integral to this assessment is usually a long-term biological monitoring program, which can be difficult to develop for large and remote areas that have little available fine-scale habitat and biological data. This is the situation for many MPAs within the ne...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a preventive monitoring program targeted to reduce compulsory rehospitalization and perceived coercion in patients with severe mental disorder. We analyze patient outcomes in terms of perceived coercion, empowerment, and self-reported mental health functioning at 12 months. METHODS The program consists of individualized psychoeducation, crisis cards and, a...

During 2003 test beam session for ATLAS Tile Calorimeter a monitoring program has been developed to ease the setup of correct running condition and the assessment of data quality. The program has been built using the Online Software services provided by the ATLAS Online Software group. The first part of this note contains a brief overview of these services followed by the full description of Ti...

In order to program parallel and distributed systems efficiently, a systematic way of defining and understanding the complex behavior of process interactions in concurrent programs is needed. A proven method for understanding existing programs is event-driven monitoring which abstracts the program behavior to a sequence of events. These event traces are analyzed for debugging and tuning of the ...

Parallel program monitoring is a key to success in parallel program development. We have developed a novel approach, called the logical clock approach , for the highly transparent monitoring of parallel programs. To apply the logical clock approach in monitoring occam programs on transputer-based systems , we rst study the (micro-coded) process scheduler of the transputer, and then demonstrate ...

Today's programs are implemented in a variety of languages and contain serious vulnerabilities which can be exploited to cause security breaches. These vulnerabilities have been exploited in real life and resulted in damages to related stakeholders such as program users. As most vulnerabilities belong to program code, many techniques have been applied to mitigate vulnerabilities before and afte...

-This paper presents an overview of the Forest Health Monitoring Program (FHM), a partnership among the USDA Forest Service, State Foresters, universities, and the USDI Bureau of Land Management. The purpose of FHM is to annually assess the condit ion of the nation’s forested ecosystems in a standardized way. There are four components of the program-Detection Monitoring, Evaluation Monitoring, ...

Program execution monitoring consists of checking whole executions for given properties in order to collect global run-time information. Monitoring is very useful to maintain programs. However, application developers face the following dilemma: either they use existing tools which never exactly t their needs, or they invest a lot of e ort to implement monitoring code. In this report we argue th...