Tailored instructional methods for students with diverse levels of computer knowledge and skills

The purpose of this online course is to ensure new nursing graduate students know how to use computer technologies required to complete academic and research activities. Powerful computers, high speed internet, digitalized resources and databases are widely available in educational institutes. New renovation and updates are being released at faster pace than ever. All these developments are necessary for a student to utilize computer programs and synthesize large amount of data in a limited time for any given academic research project. [See PDF for complete abstract]

Simulation Model of Benthic Antarctic Assemblages (SIMBAA), link to PC-executable

SIMBAA is a spatially explicit, individual-based simulation model. It was developed to analyse the response of populations of Antarctic benthic species and their diversity to iceberg scouring. This disturbance is causing a high local mortality providing potential space for new colonisation. Traits can be attributed to model species, e.g. in terms of reproduction, dispersal, and life span. Physical disturbances can be designed in space and time, e.g. in terms of size, shape, and frequency. Environmental heterogeneity can be considered by cell-specific capacities to host a certain number of individuals. When grid cells become empty (after a disturbance event or due to natural mortality of of an individual), a lottery decides which individual from which species stored in a pool of candidates (for this cell) will recruit in that cell. After a defined period the individuals become mature and their offspring are dispersed and stored in the pool of candidates. The biological parameters and disturbance regimes decide on how long an individual lives. Temporal development of single populations of species as well as Shannon diversity are depicted in the main window graphically and primary values are listed. Examples for simulations can be loaded and saved as sgf-files. The results are also shown in an additional window in a dimensionless area with 50 x 50 cells, which contain single individuals depicted as circles; their colour indicates the assignment to the self-designed model species and the size represents their age. Dominant species per cell and disturbed areas can also be depicted. Output of simulation runs can be saved as images, which can be assembled to video-clips by standard computer programs (see GIF-examples of which "Demo 1" represents the response of the Antarctic benthos to iceberg scouring and "Demo 2" represents a simulation of a deep-sea benthic habitat).

Computer analysis and design of concrete shell roofs

This paper is a preliminary version of Chapter 3 of a State-of-the-Art Report by the IASS Working Group 5: Concrete Shell Roofs. The intention of this chapter is to set forth for those who intend to design concrete shell roofs information and advice about the selection, verification and utilization of commercial computer tools for analysis and design tasks.The computer analysis and design steps for a concrete shell roof are described. Advice follows on the aspects to be considered in the application of commercial finite element (FE)computer programs to concrete shell analysis, starting with recommendations on how novices can gain confidence and competence in the use of software. To establish vocabulary and provide background references, brief surveys are presented of, first,element types and formulations for shells and, second, challenges presented by advanced analyses of shells. The final section of the chapter indicates what capabilities to seek in selecting commercial FE software for the analysis and design of concrete shell roofs. Brief concluding remarks summarize advice regarding judicious use of computer analysis in design practice.

User's manual for the CAL-3D user convenience package. Volume II - program listings. Final technical report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Vehicle fog lighting: an analytical evaluation. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

WYLBUR fundamentals.

Mode of access: Internet.

A user's guide to ISRP : the Interactive Survey Reduction Program /

"November 1984."

Driver-vehicle effectiveness model. Volume II: appendices. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Traffic safety demonstration program modeling system. Volume IV: appendices.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Guardrail/vehicle dynamic interaction. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Tools for embedded computing systems software.

"Preprint for a workshop sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, New York, and held in Hampton, Virginia, November 7-8, 1978."

Sensitivity analysis of vehicle design attributes that affect vehicle response in critical accident situations - part 1: user's manual. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

PROMETHEUS 2 - a user oriented program for human crash dynamics. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Contact-impact problems. Volume 2 - programmer's manual. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Sensitivity analysis of vehicle design attributes that affect vehicle response in critical accident situations - part II: technical report. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.