Audit report on the Iowa County Treasurers Egovernment Alliance (the Alliance) for the period from October 1, 2006 (inception) through June 30, 2007

Audit report on the Iowa County Treasurers Egovernment Alliance (the Alliance) for the period from October 1, 2006 (inception) through June 30, 2007

Review of Targeted Small Business (TSB) procurement activities for the period July 1, 2007 through September 30, 2007

Review of Targeted Small Business (TSB) procurement activities for the period July 1, 2007 through September 30, 2007

Reaudit report on the WACO Community School District for the period July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006

Reaudit report on the WACO Community School District for the period July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006

Special investigation of the Area XV Regional Planning Commission located in Ottumwa, Iowa for the period July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2006

Special investigation of the Area XV Regional Planning Commission located in Ottumwa, Iowa for the period July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2006

Independent accountant's report on applying agreed upon procedures of the Ames Community School District for the period October 15, 2003 to November 14, 2006

Independent accountant's report on applying agreed upon procedures of the Ames Community School District for the period October 15, 2003 to November 14, 2006

Special investigation of selected accounts at Burlington High School for the period July 1, 2004 through February 16, 2006

Special investigation of selected accounts at Burlington High School for the period July 1, 2004 through February 16, 2006

Special investigation of the City of Mingo for the period September 1, 2002 through June 30, 2006

Special investigation of the City of Mingo for the period September 1, 2002 through June 30, 2006

Calceology : an introduction to North Western European archaeological leather footwear (Neolithic period to c. AD 1600)

Calceology is the study of recovered archaeological leather footwear and is comprised of conservation, documentation and identification of leather shoe components and shoe styles. Recovered leather shoes are complex artefacts that present technical, stylistic and personal information about the culture and people that used them. The current method in calceological research for typology and chronology is by comparison with parallel examples, though its use poses problems by an absence of basic definitions and the lack of a taxonomic hierarchy. The research findings of the primary cutting patterns, used for making all leather footwear, are integrated with the named style method and the Goubitz notation, resulting in a combined methodology as a basis for typological organisation for recovered footwear and a chronology for named shoe styles. The history of calceological research is examined in chapter two and is accompanied by a review of methodological problems as seen in the literature. Through the examination of various documentation and research techniques used during the history of calceological studies, the reasons why a standard typology and methodology failed to develop are investigated. The variety and continual invention of a new research method for each publication of a recovered leather assemblage hindered the development of a single standard methodology. Chapter three covers the initial research with the database through which the primary cutting patterns were identified and the named styles were defined. The chronological span of each named style was established through iterative cross-site sedation and named style comparisons. The technical interpretation of the primary cutting patterns' consistent use is due to constraints imposed by the leather and the forms needed to cover the foot. Basic parts of the shoe patterns and the foot are defined, plus terms provided for identifying the key points for pattern making. Chapter four presents the seventeen primary cutting patterns and their sub-types, these are divided into three main groups: six integral soled patterns, four hybrid soled patterns and seven separately soled patterns. Descriptions of the letter codes, pattern layout, construction principle, closing seam placement and list of sub-types are included in the descriptions of each primary cutting pattern. The named shoe styles and their relative chronology are presented in chapter five. Nomenclature for the named styles is based on the find location of the first published example plus the primary cutting pattern code letter. The named styles are presented in chronological order from Prehistory through to the late 16th century. Short descriptions of the named styles are given and illustrated with examples of recovered archaeological leather footwear, reconstructions of archaeological shoes and iconographical sources. Chapter six presents documentation of recovered archaeological leather using the Goubitz notation, an inventory and description of style elements and fastening methods used for defining named shoe styles, technical information about sole/upper constructions and the consequences created by the use of lasts and sewing forms for style identification and fastening placement in relation to the instep point. The chapter concludes with further technical information about the implications for researchers about shoemaking, pattern making and reconstructive archaeology. The conclusion restates the original research question of why a group of primary cutting patterns appear to have been used consistently throughout the European archaeological record. The quantitative and qualitative results from the database show the use of these patterns but it is the properties of the leather that imposes the use of the primary cutting patterns. The combined methodology of primary pattern identification, named style and artefact registration provides a framework for calceological research.

Plataforma Off-shore com Turbina Eólica Simulação e Controlo

O objetivo deste trabalho é o de simular e controlar a plataforma de um aerogerador flutuante. Este aerogerador flutuante consiste numa plataforma do tipo semi-submersível, nomeadamente o DeepCwind acoplado a um aerogerador de 5 MW, mais especificamente o NREL offshore 5-MW baseline wind turbine. Descreve-se o modelo físico do aerogerador flutuante, a formulação teórica a ele subjacente, bem como a caraterização dos diferentes estados do vento e do mar utilizados para simulação. O modelo não linear do aerogerador flutuante foi simulado, utilizando o FAST como emulador do aerogerador flutuante, para condições ambientais determinísticas, por forma a compreender a dinâmica associada à plataforma. Modelos lineares foram obtidos, por linearização do modelo não linear, aplicando técnicas de identificação de sistemas e utilizando o módulo de linearização do simulador FAST. Estes modelos foram posteriormente comparados, utilizando um único modelo para síntese de controladores. Controladores esses, desenvolvidos com base num modelo linear simplificado que consiste no pitch da plataforma, transformando o problema global da plataforma num problema bidimensional. Projetou-se um controlador proporcional-integral-derivativo (PID) e um controlador em espaço de estados por colocação de pólos. A simulação do modelo não linear, com o controlo do pitch da plataforma, para diferentes condições ambientais, demonstrou o bom desempenho dos controladores. Foi possível com ambos os controladores garantir os requisitos do sistema controlado, em que se exigia que se evitasse ressonâncias e em que o pitch da plataforma fosse nulo, por forma a garantir a perpendicularidade do plano das pás (plano do rotor) do aerogerador em relação à direção do vento.

On the throughput-WIP trade-off in queueing systems, diminishing returns and the threshold property: A linear programming approach

We present a new unifying framework for investigating throughput-WIP(Work-in-Process) optimal control problems in queueing systems,based on reformulating them as linear programming (LP) problems withspecial structure: We show that if a throughput-WIP performance pairin a stochastic system satisfies the Threshold Property we introducein this paper, then we can reformulate the problem of optimizing alinear objective of throughput-WIP performance as a (semi-infinite)LP problem over a polygon with special structure (a thresholdpolygon). The strong structural properties of such polygones explainthe optimality of threshold policies for optimizing linearperformance objectives: their vertices correspond to the performancepairs of threshold policies. We analyze in this framework theversatile input-output queueing intensity control model introduced byChen and Yao (1990), obtaining a variety of new results, including (a)an exact reformulation of the control problem as an LP problem over athreshold polygon; (b) an analytical characterization of the Min WIPfunction (giving the minimum WIP level required to attain a targetthroughput level); (c) an LP Value Decomposition Theorem that relatesthe objective value under an arbitrary policy with that of a giventhreshold policy (thus revealing the LP interpretation of Chen andYao's optimality conditions); (d) diminishing returns and invarianceproperties of throughput-WIP performance, which underlie thresholdoptimality; (e) a unified treatment of the time-discounted andtime-average cases.

Special investigation of the City of Center Point Library for the period January 1, 2006 through December 6, 2007

Special investigation of the City of Center Point Library for the period January 1, 2006 through December 6, 2007

Special investigation of the City of Schleswig for the period January 1, 2003 through January 31, 2007

Special investigation of the City of Schleswig for the period January 1, 2003 through January 31, 2007

Agreed upon procedures report on the City of Springville, Iowa for the period July 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007

Agreed upon procedures report on the City of Springville, Iowa for the period July 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007

Report on a review of selected general and application controls over the Iowa State University of Science and Technology payroll system for the period March 27 through May 11, 2007

Report on a review of selected general and application controls over the Iowa State University of Science and Technology payroll system for the period March 27 through May 11, 2007

A consistency test of the time trade-off

This paper tests the internal consistency of time trade-off utilities.We find significant violations of consistency in the direction predictedby loss aversion. The violations disappear for higher gauge durations.We show that loss aversion can also explain that for short gaugedurations time trade-off utilities exceed standard gamble utilities. Ourresults suggest that time trade-off measurements that use relativelyshort gauge durations, like the widely used EuroQol algorithm(Dolan 1997), are affected by loss aversion and lead to utilities thatare too high.