Application of a performance modeling technique to an airplane with variable sweep wings

A performance modeling concept previously applied to an F-104F G and a YF-12C airplane was applied to an F-111A airplane. This application extended the concept to an airplane with variable sweep wings. The performance model adequately matched flight test data for maneuvers flown at different wing sweep angles at maximum afterburning and intermediate power settings. For maneuvers flown at less than intermediate power, including dynamic maneuvers, the performance model was not validated because the method used to correlate model and in-flight power setting was not adequate. Individual dynamic maneuvers were matched sucessfully by using adjustments unique to each maneuver

User's manual for EZPLOT version 5.5: A FORTRAN program for 2-dimensional graphic display of data

EZPLOT is a computer applications program that converts data resident on a file into a plot displayed on the screen of a graphics terminal. This program generates either time history or x-y plots in response to commands entered interactively from a terminal keyboard. Plot parameters consist of a single independent parameter and from one to eight dependent parameters. Various line patterns, symbol shapes, axis scales, text labels, and data modification techniques are available. This user's manual describes EZPLOT as it is implemented on the Ames Research Center, Dryden Research Facility ELXSI computer using DI-3000 graphics software tools

Переходные эпохи, власть и дидактика исторического знания: культурно-семиотическое прочтение

Исследуется взаимосвязь между историей как учебной дисциплиной и процессом легитимации власти в России в переходные исторические эпохи. Используя методы и подходы культурно-семиотического анализа, в частности модель дуальных систем, разработанную в рамках московско-тартуской школы семиотики, автор доказывает, что дидактический и идеологический потенциалы истории начинают активно и осознанно использоваться властью с эпохи Петра Великого, когда под влиянием культурного сдвига начинает формироваться «светская религия государственности». Учитывая, что с точки зрения семиотики культуры любые переходные эпохи поддаются корректному сопоставлению и прочтению, автор статьи анализирует современный интерес власти к созданию единого школьного учебника по отечественной истории и высказывает свое мнение о том, что этот интерес, обусловленный типологической ситуацией культурно-исторического перехода, есть одно из проявлений очередного стремления власти к общественной легитимации с помощью истории.The article explores the correlations between history as a discipline and the process of power legitimation in Russia in the times of transition. Using methods and approaches of cultural-semiotic analysis, and more particularly the models of dual systems developed by the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School, the author shows that the didactic and ideological potential of history has been actively and consciously used by the authorities since the reign of Peter the Great when, due to a cultural shift a “secular religion of statehood” started taking shape. As semiotics makes it possible to correctly compare and comprehend any periods of transition, the researcher focuses on the contemporary interest of the authorities in creating a uniform school textbook of Russian history and maintains that it is one of the manifestations of the ordinary desire of the authorities to use history for their own social legitimation which is characteristic of the typological situation of cultural and historical transition

Reforms of local administration in the Petrine epoch: the paradoxes of centralisation

The article was submitted on 07.07.2016.Предложено решение вопроса об эффективности местного государственного управления, возникшего в ходе реформ Петра Великого. По мнению автора, в России первой четверти XVIII в. сосуществовали две административные системы – это учреждения, создававшиеся под влиянием западных образцов (их деятельность должна была обеспечивать повседневные потребности управления), и учреждения для оперативного решения внезапно возникавших проблем. В них сочетались особенности приказов, осуществлявших руководство через разовые поручения, и черты коллежского администрирования (например, в организации делопроизводства). Первые именуются в статье ординарными, а вторые – экстраординарными, или чрезвычайными. Ординарные учреждения местного управления в сложных условиях первой четверти XVIII в. показали себя низкоэффективными. Предшествовавшая им приказно-воеводская система управления для своего времени была более оптимальной. Все мобилизационные усилия власти смогли реализоваться лишь при наличии целой сети экстраординарных учреждений. Последние контролировали ординарные, стимулировали их постоянными мерами жесткого административного давления, но одновременно затрудняли их деятельность, вторгаясь в сферу их компетенции. Этот сложный управленческий конгломерат на практике разрушал идеальную модель «правильного» администрирования, лежавшую в основе создававшегося Петром Polizeistaat, хотя и позволял добиваться краткосрочного эффекта в практических делах. В последние годы царствования Петра I противоречия между ординарными и экстраординарными учреждениями, камералистскими идеалами и практикой «ручного управления» в чрезвычайных условиях завели конструирование государственного механизма в тупик. Ближайшие преемники Петра, освободившись из-под тяжкой опеки императора, очень быстро и без особых сожалений ликвидировали сложное нагромождение ординарных и экстраординарных структур областного управления, выстроив новую, гораздо более простую управленческую систему, соединившую в себе приказно-воеводские традиции и коллежские новации.The article attempts to resolve the question of the efficiacy of the local administrative system that arose in the course of Peter the Great’s reforms. In the opinion of the author, two administrative systems existed in Russia in the first quarter of the 18th century: institutions created under the influence of Western models that were supposed to deal with everyday issues of governance and establishments that were targeted at problems which arose suddenly. The former type might be dubbed ‘ordinary institutions’ and the latter ‘extraordinary institutions’. In the complex conditions of the first quarter of the 18th century, the ordinary institutions of local administration demonstrated low levels of efficiacy. The system of military chancelleries that preceded them had performed more optimally. The full mobilisation of the state’s resources could only be accomplished via a network of extraordinary institutions. These controlled their ordinary counterparts, stimulating them via intense administrative pressure: however, they simultaneously made work more difficult, since they interfered regularly in their spheres of competence. In practice, this complicated administrative conglometrate destroyed the ideal model of ‘correct’ administration that lay at the basis of the Polizeistaat created by Peter, although it did achieve some short-term successes. In the final years of Peter’s reign, the contradictions between the ordinary and extraordinary institutions, between cameralist ideals and the practice of ‘manual control’, caused the administrative machinery to clatter to a standstill. Peter’s immediate successors demolished his bureaucratic agglomerate quickly and without any particular regret: they soon strove to build a new, simpler administrative system that united within it both the traditions of the military chancelleries and collegial innovations.Статья подготовлена в рамках реализации гранта Правительства РФ по привлечению ведущих ученых в российские образовательные учреждения высшего профессионального образования, научные учреждения государственных академий наук и государственные научные центры РФ (лаборатория эдиционной археографии, Уральский федеральный университет). Договор № 14.А.12.31.0004 от 26.06.2013 г

BENEFITS OF CONNECTING RFID AND LEAN PRINCIPLES IN HEALTH CARE

The performance management process in health care is far behind compared to the manufacturing and service industries. Although nowadays the health care organizations are able to deal with a greater rank diseases, their cost, quality and delivery has essentially not improved significantly, and the difference with the other industries even seems to have increased. As opposed to this situation health care has a tremendous opportunity to deploy lean principles to reduce internal/external costs, improve patient safety, increase profits, reduce litigation and decrease the dependence on Government and Insurance. The application of these principles is being facilitated by the use of the new technologies. A new technology allowing personnel to constantly "see" what’s happening with regards to patients schedule, backlog, workflow, inventory levels, resource utilization, quality, etc., is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The aim of this paper is to analyse the benefits that can be derived from the joint use of lean principles and RFID technology in health care.

Stimulation of bone growth with thrombin peptide derivatives

Disclosed is a method of stimulating bone growth at a site in a subject in need of osteoinduction. The method comprises the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor to the site.Board of Regents, University of Texas Syste

Assessoria em Gestão como Vetor de Desenvolvimento das MPMEs da Região Noroeste Colonial do Rio Grande do Sul

Este resumo relata os resultados parciais do Programa Extensão Empresarial, que é uma ação articulada entre o Governo do Estado do RS, através da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento e Assuntos Internacionais - SEDAI e a Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul - UNIJUÍ junto às micro, pequenas e médias empresas – MPMEs, do Noroeste Colonial, no período de março a agosto de 2004. O programa é um sistema de resolução de problemas que oportuniza às micro, pequenas e médias empresas industriais, comerciais e de serviços acesso a formas inovadoras de gestão administrativa, de produtos e de processos, através de assistência técnica gratuita nas áreas gerenciais e tecnológicas. As fases do trabalho nas empresas atendem as etapas de inscrição, aplicação do diagnóstico, implantação de melhorias e avaliação, atuando na gestão estratégica das áreas de administração organizacional, gestão de pessoas, finanças e custos, vendas e marketing, produto e manufatura e serviços. O programa, após seis meses, inscreveu 229 empresas, diagnosticou 163 destas e implantou ações em 110. Das ações implantadas 92,2% eram problemas de gestão; 3,2% de processo e 4,6% de produto. Foram inscritas 60 indústrias, 133 comércio e 36 serviços. O programa fornece uma base rica em casos para pesquisa e ensino

EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA: A CONTRIBUIÇÃO DO PROGRAMA EXTENSÃO EMPRESARIAL PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL

Este artigo relata os resultados do Programa Extensão Empresarial, no período de março de 2004 a setembro de 2005, que é uma ação articulada entre o Governo do Estado do RS, através da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento e Assuntos Internacionais - SEDAI e a Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – UNIJUÍ, junto às micro, pequenas e médias empresas – MPMEs, do Noroeste Colonial do RS. O programa é um sistema de resolução de problemas que oportuniza às micro, pequenas e médias empresas industriais, comerciais e de serviços, acesso a formas inovadoras de gestão administrativa, de produtos e de processos, através de assistência técnica gratuita nas áreas gerenciais e tecnológicas. O Programa dispõe de uma equipe de oito técnicos, para atuação direta na empresa, um gerente responsável pela coordenação e execução do Programa e seis estagiários. As fases do trabalho nas empresas atendem às etapas de inscrição, realização do diagnóstico, implantação de melhorias e avaliação de todo o processo, atuando na gestão estratégica das áreas de administração organizacional, gestão de pessoas, finanças e custos, vendas e marketing, produto e manufatura e prestação de serviços. De posse dos dados levantados elabora-se um relatório de diagnóstico empresarial, destacando pontos fortes e fracos e sugerindo as melhorias relevantes para qualificar a performance e produtividade da organização. O programa, após um ano, assessorou 322 empresas distribuídas em 30 municípios da região Noroeste Colonial do RS onde foram implantadas 1155 ações, sendo 93,07% delas oriundas de problemas de gestão, 4,07% oriundas de problemas de processo e 2,86% de problemas de produto. Das empresas atendidas, 24,22% são do setor industrial, 58,70% são do setor comercial e 17,08% são empresas prestadoras de serviços. A necessidade de uma interação mais qualificada se sustenta na capacidade que o programa possui de constituir-se em elo entre o setor produtivo, a pesquisa e os programas de ensino da UNIJUÍ. Exercendo uma ação que prima pela interdisciplinaridade, os programas de ensino são qualificados na medida em que se proporcionam espaços para estudos, monografias, dissertações e toda a gama de ações acadêmicas próprias do fazer universitário, canalizando também inúmeros casos empresariais para discussão e análise. O projeto fornece ainda uma base rica em informações para pesquisa. Constata-se, outrossim, que os níveis de emprego e renda aumentaram no período do programa bem como percebe-se um nível elevado de satisfação dos empresários atendidos