Operator's, organizational, direct support, and general support maintenance manual for tool outfit, Hydraulic Systems Test and Repair (HSTRU) (NSN 4940-01-036-5784).

Includes index.

Conrail's attempts to control labor costs and improve its labor productivity : report /

"June 20, 1980."

Radiation control for health and safety act of 1967. Hearings Ninetieth Congress, first- session [s], on S. 2067, S. 3211, and H.R. 10790 ...

"Serial no. 90-49."

Investigation and report of property values, together with the status and control of stocks and bonds of carriers subject to the act to regulate commerce. Hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, on the bill H.R. 12811, as to the details, methods, practicability, and costs of the investigation proposed. February 15 and 16, 1912.

William C. Adamson, Chairman.

Quality control in AFDC and Medicaid : a report to Congress.

"March 1988."

Computer-based national information systems : technology and public policy issues, summary.

"OTA-CIT-147"--P. 4 of cover.

Flood control project maintenance and repair; Inspection report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Investigation of concentration of economic power. Temporary National Economic Committee. Final report of the executive secretary to the Temporary National Economic Committee on the concentration of economic power in the United States pursuant to Public Resolution no. 113 (Seventy-fifth Congress) authorizing and directing a select committee to make a full and complete study and investigation with respect to the concentration of economic power in, and financial control over, production and distribution of goods and services ...

By Dewey Anderson, executive secretary.

On systems thinking, systems biology and the in Silico Plant

The recent summary report of a Department of Energy Workshop on Plant Systems Biology (P.V. Minorsky [2003] Plant Physiol 132: 404-409) offered a welcomed advocacy for systems analysis as essential in understanding plant development, growth, and production. The goal of the Workshop was to consider methods for relating the results of molecular research to real-world challenges in plant production for increased food supplies, alternative energy sources, and environmental improvement. The rather surprising feature of this report, however, was that the Workshop largely overlooked the rich history of plant systems analysis extending over nearly 40 years (Sinclair and Seligman, 1996) that has considered exactly those challenges targeted by the Workshop. Past systems research has explored and incorporated biochemical and physiological knowledge into plant simulation models from a number of perspectives. The research has resulted in considerable understanding and insight about how to simulate plant systems and the relative contribution of various factors in influencing plant production. These past activities have contributed directly to research focused on solving the problems of increasing biomass production and crop yields. These modeling approaches are also now providing an avenue to enhance integration of molecular genetic technologies in plant improvement (Hammer et al., 2002).

A modified particle filter for simultaneous robot localization and landmark tracking in an indoor environment

This paper presents the implementation of a modified particle filter for vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping of an autonomous robot in a structured indoor environment. Through this method, artificial landmarks such as multi-coloured cylinders can be tracked with a camera mounted on the robot, and the position of the robot can be estimated at the same time. Experimental results in simulation and in real environments show that this approach has advantages over the extended Kalman filter with ambiguous data association and various levels of odometric noise.

The role of management incentives in successful information systems development and implementation

Because organizations are making large investments in Information systems (IS), efficient IS project management has been found critical to success. This study examines how the use of incentives can improve the project success. Agency theory is used to: identify motivational factors of project success, help the IS owners to understand to what extent management incentives can improve IS development and implementation (ISD/I). The outcomes will help practitioners and researchers to build on theoretical model of project management elements which lead to project success. Given the principal-agent nature of most significant scale of IS development, insights that will allow for greater alignment of the agent’s goals with those of the principal through incentive contracts, will serve to make ISD/I both more efficient and more effective, leading to more successful IS projects.