Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Defense's (DOD) Medicare subvention demonstration program, focusing on: (1) the early phases of implementing the DOD demonstration; (2) issues raised by that experience for DOD subvention; and (3) lessons from the DOD demonstration for a possible Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) demonstration."
In: Bossink , B 2020 , ' Learning strategies in sustainable energy demonstration projects : What organizations learn from sustainable energy demonstrations ' , Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews , vol. 131 , 110025 , pp. 1-14 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110025
This literature review study presents and discusses the learning strategies of organizations participating in sustainable energy demonstration projects. It finds that academic, commercial, and governmental organizations build on six major learning strategies. The first learning strategy is to capture intellectual property and benefit from knowledge spillovers. The second learning strategy comprises the building of a series of prototypes that are technically and commercially fit for purpose. The third learning strategy aims at operating production plants that produce the prototypes on a large scale. The fourth learning strategy concentrates on exploiting learning curves in these production plants. The fifth learning strategy focuses on creating supply-demand networks that serve increasing markets. Finally, the sixth learning strategy is to develop governmental regulation and funding schemes that support the emergence of an industrial and societal institutional infrastructure for sustainable energy technology, based on the lessons learned from the demonstration projects. This study also finds that the six learning strategies are facilitated by four key behaviors of participants in demonstration projects, which are mutual trust-building, decision-making in favor of sustainable energy technology, learning-network building, and demonstration program development. To academics, this study provides a comprehensive insight into organizations' learning strategies in sustainable energy demonstration projects, regarding learning directions and outcomes. Its contribution to practice is that it supports academic, commercial, and governmental organizations in managing their portfolio of learning strategies in new sustainable energy demonstration projects.
The objective of this deliverable number 18, D5.5 Report on results of demonstration, is to present the results obtained during the development of the activity TASK 5.3. Demonstration of the capacities of AiRT system, in a relevant scenario, which is part of the WP5: Integration, validation and demonstration. The scenario is the Science Museum, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, which is located in the City of Arts and Sciences (CAC). Nowadays, the CAC is considered as the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia. Therefore, this is an optimal environment to draw attention to our project and to demonstrate the potential of AiRT. In order to perform the demonstration, we applied the PAR method, based on the critical analysis of the AiRT RPAS & software, with the active participation of some Cultural and Creative Industry (CCIs) stakeholders. This method combines two processes, to know and to act, involving the CCIs in both of them. Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) coordinated this activity because it has specialists in PAR for validating the process, with the collaboration of all partners. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nº 732433.
The policing of demonstrations is a crucial activity that reveals much about the quality of democracy in a given society. In addition to presenting the papers that make up the dossier, this article contributes to Northern Ireland's accumulated experience in dealing with demonstrations. Brazil and Northern Ireland constitute divided societies in which the police is co-responsible for conflicts and face serious legitimacy problems, at least for vulnerable groups. Lessons from Northern Ireland indicate that mutual understanding between police and protesters is vital to limit the potential for public order incidents and events to become unmanageable.
Numerous Third World dictatorships have resorted to the cynical use of the electoral process to consolidate tyranny rather than advance democracy, deodorize the institutionalization of state terror, outmaneuver the popular movements or--in the case of US client regimes--appease occasional American breastbeating on the future of democracy and the fate of human rights.
This report by the Legislative Audit Council reviews the Human Services Demonstration Project. The project failed to demonstrate a working model of a single integrated human services agency although a number of individual tasks were researched and demonstrated.
In the Nordic countries, manufacturing plays a vital socio-economic role by contributing to employment and the economy at large. The key prerequisites are a high productivity and a strong competitive edge. One of the ways to obtain and maintain a competitive edge is if (small and medium-sized) companies apply new knowledge and new technologies. However, a key barrier for Nordic manufacturing companies that we have identified is access to test and demonstration facilities. To support the use of new technologies by companies, easy access to testing of new products and technologies is a decisive factor for the companies to gain knowledge of and inspiration for the use of the new technologies in their current business. The project therefore sets out to present a mapping of test and demonstration facilities in the Nordic countries. In addition to the mapping, we have identified ten good practice examples of such facilities. Moreover, we have identified political initiatives in the Nordic countries, including specific strategies for setting up and structuring test and demonstration facilities as well as covering possible evaluations of the demand for and quality of the facilities. The long-term objective of the mapping is to make it easy for Nordic companies to gain an overview of relevant suppliers of testing and demonstration facilities. To fulfil this objective, the intention is to offer suppliers of test and demonstration facilities an opportunity to render their testing and demonstration facilities visible to customers and business partners that are developing new products or production processes. The specific purpose of the project is: To map Nordic test and demonstration facilities. Through a survey, we have gathered data to characterise and describe the test and demonstration facilities; To design a proposal for an interactive product (a website or an online portal)through which (potential) users can gain access to information about Nordic testand demonstration facilities; To describe political strategies and action plans in the Nordic countries aimed atdeveloping an infrastructure for test and demonstration facilities, and, if information is available, such as evaluations, review the benefits and impact of the strategies and action plans; To present ten illustrative best practice cases of test and demonstration facilitieswhere experiences and lessons learned can inspire others with ambitions to develop test and demonstration facilities. ; publishedVersion
In the Nordic countries, manufacturing plays a vital socio-economic role by contributing to employment and the economy at large. The key prerequisites are a high productivity and a strong competitive edge. One of the ways to obtain and maintain a competitive edge is if (small and medium-sized) companies apply new knowledge and new technologies. To support the use of new technologies by companies, easy access to testing of new products and technologies is a decisive factor for the companies to gain knowledge of and inspiration for the use of the new technologies in their current business. This report presents a mapping of test and demonstration facilities in the Nordic countries, including ten good practice examples of such facilities as well as political initiatives in the Nordic countries, including specific strategies for setting up and structuring test and demonstration facilities.
This is a short speech given by Raymond Nakai at the Rough Rock Demonstration School. Nakai speaks about national agendas of elected administrators and their anger aimed at minorities over greatly needed social programs. He encourages the Navajo people to remain resolute as Nakai continues to work to break the cycle of poverty of the Navajo Nation. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Raymond Nakai, a Navajo Indian, was born in 1918 in Lukachukai, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai is noted as being the first modern Navajo political leader serving as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963-1971. As chairman, the issues most important during his tenure were self determination in Navajo Education, reservation unemployment, developing Navajo economy, further development of the tribal government and improving relations with the federal government and surrounding states. Nakai had much unprecedented success as Navajo Tribal Chairman: In 1967 the Navajo Nation Bill of Rights was created, in 1968 Navajo Community College opened being the first tribally controlled community college, the Tribal Scholarship Trust was developed, relations with off reservation natural resource companies began, he was supportive of religious freedom of the Native American Church on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai led an active personal and political life and was an innovative leader for the Navajo People. The Raymond Nakai Collection contains material documenting his activities as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 - 1971.
1 p. A typed statement by University of Oregon President Robert D. Clark regarding various activist events in response to a heavy round of U.S. bombing in North Vietnam. Clark states that he supported the organization of a Peace March and the symbolic act of digging 'bomb craters' in front of the ROTC building, but did not support violent and desctructive actions of a small group of students at the demonstration.
Not Available ; The information on the frontline demonstration conducted on nine oilseeds crops and oilseed based farming systems is provided. ; NMOOP Department of Agriculture and Cooperation Government of India, New Delhi
PLASMATIC (Advanced Predictive Maintenance for the Valencian plastic industrial sector) is a project funded by the Valencian Institute for Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). The general objective of this project is to help the Valencian plastic sector companies to incorporate solutions from the so-called Factory 4.0, via knowledge and technologies in the fields of Big Data, Machine Learning and Business Intelligence. The main result will be an advanced predictive maintenance system to deal with: (i) anomalies detection; (ii) wear prediction; and (iii) maintenance planning optimization. This document shows, in video format,the main project result: SMPa. ; PLASMATIC. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of the Valencian Community for the development of non-economic R&D projects carried out in cooperation with companies during 2017 with 157.381€. File number: IMDEEA/2018/88
Der Aufsatz betrachtet entlang einer ethnografischen Erhebung den Einsatz von Videokameras auf politischen Demonstrationen. Er verdeutlicht, dass schon während des Demonstrierens Kameras auf das Geschehen einwirken und die gefilmten Akteure sich Gedanken über die spätere Nutzung des Videomaterials machen.
When policy issues involve complex technical questions, demonstrations are more likely to marshal charts, graphs, models, and simulations than to mobilize popular movements in the streets. This paper analyzes PowerPoint demonstrations, the most ubiquitous form of digital demonstrations. The first set of demonstrations is the PowerPoint presentations made in December 2002 by the seven finalist architectural teams in the Innovative Design competition for rebuilding the World Trade Center. The second case occurred some blocks away, several months later: Colin Powell's PowerPoint demonstration at the United Nations. The authors argue that Edward Tufte's denunciation of PowerPoint does not capture the cognitive style made possible by the affordances of this pervasive new technology. On the basis of our case materials, they identify several features of the elementary grammar of a rhetoric that exploits the medium's potential to manipulate text, sound, and image. The analysis further demonstrates the distinctive morphology of PowerPoint. Its digital character provides affordances 1) that allow heterogeneous materials to be seamlessly re-presented in a single format that 2) can morph easily from live demonstration to circulating digital documents that 3) can be utilized in counter-demonstrations. A careful examination of this widely used technology is critical for understanding public discourse in a democratic society.
For ships at sea, satellites provide the only option for high data rate (HDR), long haul communications. Furthermore the demand for HDR satellite communications (SATCOM) for military and commercial ships, and other offshore platforms is increasing. Presently the bulk of this maritime HDR SATCOM connectivity is provided via C-band and X-band. However, the shipboard antenna sizes required to achieve a data rate of, say T1 (1.544 Mbps) with present C-/X-band SATCOM systems range from seven to ten feet in diameter. This limits the classes of ships to which HDR services can be provided to those which are large enough to accommodate the massive antennas. With its high powered K/Ka-band spot beams, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) was able to provide T1 and higher rate services to ships at sea using much smaller shipboard antennas. This paper discusses three shipboard HDR SATCOM demonstrations that were conducted with ACTS between 1996 and 1998. The first demonstration involved a 2 Mbps link provided to the seismic survey ship M/V Geco Diamond equipped with a 16-inch wide, 4.5-inch tall, mechanically steered slotted waveguide array antenna developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In this February 1996 demonstration ACTS allowed supercomputers ashore to process Geco Diamond's voluminous oceanographic seismic data in near real time. This capability allowed the ship to adjust its search parameters on a daily basis based on feedback from the processed data, thereby greatly increasing survey efficiency. The second demonstration was conducted on the US Navy cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) with the same antenna used on Geco Diamond. Princeton conducted a six-month (January-July 1997) Western Hemisphere solo deployment during which time T1 connectivity via ACTS provided the ship with a range of valuable tools for operational, administrative and quality-of-life tasks. In one instance, video teleconferencing (VTC) via ACTS allowed the ship to provide life-saving emergency medical aid, assisted by specialists ashore, to a fellow mariner - the Master of a Greek cargo ship. The third demonstration set what is believed to be the all-time SATCOM data rate record to a ship at sea, 45 Mbps in October 1998. This Lake Michigan (Chicago area) demonstration employed one of ACTS' fixed beams and involved the smallest of the three vessels, the 45-foot Bayliner M/V Entropy equipped with a modified commercial-off-the-shelf one-meter antenna. A variety of multi-media services were provided to Entropy through a stressing range of sea states. These three demonstrations provided a preview of the capabilities that could be provided to future mariners on a more routine basis when K/Ka-band SATCOM systems are widely deployed.