UAV:n soveltuvuus CAS-toimintaan

Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää, miten monikäyttöinen UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) soveltuisi CAS-tehtäviin. UAV-laitteita käytetään moniin eri tehtäviin niin siviili- kuin sotilasmaailmassakin, ja niiden kehittämiseen käytetään maailmanlaajuisesti vuosi vuodelta enemmän resursseja. Kokemusta niiden käytöstä teknisesti yhtä vahvaa vihollista vastaan ei juurikaan ole, minkä vuoksi tässä tutkimuksessa painotetaan toimimista vihollisen maajoukkojen välittömässä läheisyydessä ja lähdetään siitä oletuksesta, että vihollisella on liikkuvaa ilmatorjuntaa mukana. Tämä on ratkaiseva ero UAV:eiden tähänastiseen ilmasta maahan -vaikuttamiseen nähden. Tutkimusta varten on kerätty julkisista lähteistä tietoa nykyaikaisten järjestelmien ominai-suuksista ja suorituskyvystä, minkä jälkeen niitä on tarkasteltu yleisten taktisten periaatteiden näkökulmasta. Yleisiin taktisiin periaatteisiin liittyvä teoria perustuu Mika Huttusen kirjoittamaan MPKK:n Taktiikan laitoksen julkaisuun Monimutkainen taktiikka. Eri järjestelmien ominaisuuksia tarkastelemalla on selvitetty, onko jollain niistä kannattavaa tai edes mahdollista toteuttaa tutkitun kaltaista tehtävää. Tutkimuksessa havaittiin, että ainakin esimerkkijärjestelmissä on muutamia puutteita, joiden vuoksi ne eivät ole tällä hetkellä järkeviä vaihtoehtoja CAS-toimintaan. Tulevaisuudessa tekniikan kehittyessä on kuitenkin täysin mahdollista, että perinteisen maataistelukoneen sijasta UAV:ta aletaan hyödyntää lähitulituen antamisessa.

Spreading my wings : how can I improve my practice and contribute to the professional knowledge base through narrative-autobiographical self-study?

"How can I improve my practice and contribute to the professional knowledge base through narrative-autobiographical self-study?" Through the use of Whitehead's (1989) living educational theory and examination of my stories, I identify the values and critical events that have helped me come to know my own learning and shape my professional self. Building on the premise that educational knowledge/theory is created, recreated, and lived through educational inquiry; I strive to make meaning of this data archive, collected over 7 years of teaching. I chart my journey to reexamine my beliefs and practices, to find a balance between traditional and progressive practices and to align my theory and practice. I retell, and, thus, in some way relive, my own "living contradictions." A reconceptualization of the KNOW, DO, BE model (Drake & Burns, 2004) is used to develop strategies to align my practice, including a six-step model of curriculum design that combines the backwards design process of Wiggins and McTighe (1998), the KNOW, DO, BE model (Drake & Burns) and Curry and Samara's (1995) differentiation planner.

"Flying High" - Air Canada and Inniskillin

A media release announcing Air Canada's use of "Inniskillin's 1978 Chardonnay on all first class domestic flights". The announcement describes the process of making the wine and the flavour. Also included is a 1978 Chardonnay label.

Grand Bahama Club Flying Citation, 1958

A Citation from the Grand Bahama Club that reads, "This Citation is awarded to Dorothy Rungeling for having flown a single engine plane across the waters of the Gulf Stream to Grand Bahama Island. In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 19th day of August 1958."

Article - "Those darling young women in their flying machines", 1977

A retrospective article written by Dorothy Rungeling as she recalls the the International Air Races that often began or ended in Welland-Port Colborne Airport. The article was published in the Welland Evening Tribune, 9 September 1977.

Le projet feedback : recherche d'un point de rencontre stylistique entre la musique électroacoustique glitch, le free jazz et le drone metal.

L’objectif principal de cette thèse de doctorat en composition consiste en la conceptualisation et création d’une oeuvre pour guitare électrique et dispositif électronique se situant à un point de rencontre stylistique entre le free jazz, la musique électro glitch et le drone métal. Le présent texte vise principalement à expliciter la démarche de création de cette oeuvre, intitulée feedback. À la suite du chapitre d'introduction qui décrit l'origine et les objectifs de ce projet de composition, le premier chapitre est consacré à une réflexion sur l'improvisation musicale. En partant d'une description générale de cette pratique et de ses origines, cinq manifestations de l'improvisation qui ont influencé l’oeuvre y sont décrites. Dans le deuxième chapitre est présentée l'hyperguitare qui a été développée pour la pièce ainsi que la description de ses composantes matérielles et logicielles. Dans le troisième chapitre sont décrits le contexte de création, le rôle de l’improvisation dans le processus de création et la description technique des quatre oeuvres composées en amont de feedback. Le quatrième chapitre est dédié à la pièce feedback inspirée de l'œuvre cinématographique et littéraire Fight Club et imprégnée, sur le plan stylistique, de la culture rock, du free jazz et de la musique électroacoustique glitch. En conclusion sont présentés les nouveaux objectifs que ces recherches ont engendrés.

Embedding objects into Matlab/Simulink for process supervision

This paper introduces how artificial intelligence technologies can be integrated into a known computer aided control system design (CACSD) framework, Matlab/Simulink, using an object oriented approach. The aim is to build a framework to aid supervisory systems analysis, design and implementation. The idea is to take advantage of an existing CACSD framework, Matlab/Simulink, so that engineers can proceed: first to design a control system, and then to design a straightforward supervisory system of the control system in the same framework. Thus, expert systems and qualitative reasoning tools are incorporated into this popular CACSD framework to develop a computer aided supervisory system design (CASSD) framework. Object-variables an introduced into Matlab/Simulink for sharing information between tools

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

This image was found on creative commons. Some rights are reserved, the image is by Simon Vanherweghe. The original artwork is from Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus, a musician. This piece is of a particular importance to my project as I found the use of field lines very interesting, I am also in awe of this type of illustration and its a great album.

The flying circus. 'El circo volador'.

Dirigido a niños de cinco a ocho años, forma parte del plan de estudios del idioma Inglés en el programa nacional de estudios. La colección fue desarrollada en una serie de televisión de la BBC. Consta de veintiseis episodios, cada uno con una historia diferente, dando además, consejos útiles para enseñar a los niños un buen uso del Inglés. Floppy es un perro que tiene un collar con una llave mágica que le permite cumplir sus deseos, en este caso, transportar a los niños Biff, Kipper y Chip en medio de un aeródromo donde cuatro máquinas voladoras están listas para despegar.Una vez que están en el aire, Chip ha de ser capaz de guiarlas hacia abajo en condiciones de seguridad.

The flying football.

Esta serie llena el vacío entre las Etapas uno y dos, está dirigida principalmente a niños que no están haciendo los avances esperados en la lectura y tienen la necesidad de consolidar sus habilidades, antes de que puedan convertirse en lectores con fluidez. Los textos humorísticos motivan a los niños de edades comprendidas entre los siete y los nueve años, mientras que el uso controlado de estructuras de frases les permitirán acceder al texto fácilmente. A Max le gusta jugar al fútbol en la escuela con sus amigos, pero cuando suena la campana uno de los chicos patea el balón demasiado fuerte y Max cree que nunca lo encontrará.

Rethinking Polycentric Structures in the Postcolonial Church: Dangers of “Drone Missiology” or Afghanization of Christianity

In this brief essay I shall obviously draw from my reflections which I shared over the past three decades and to which I have provided some bibliographical references. It is clear from them that I had several opportunities to share my views beyond the Anglo-Saxon world, and some of them in events organized by K. Koschorke himself in the German academic circles as Munich-Freising Conferences. It is important that we do not get misled by words. We also need clarity of the concepts involved. Koschorke’s emphasis on “ploycentric structures” requires to be discussed and analysed critically to sort out its geographic components and its political-cultural implications, in order to be clear where lie the priorities. Without such exercise we will run the risk of hiding behind the ambiguity of words and concepts. My gut feelings make me believe that “polycentric structures” is just what the West needs in the postcolonial era to replace the control it has lost with decolonization.

High bandwidth, large workspace haptic interaction: flying phantoms

It is well understood that for haptic interaction: free motion performance and closed-loop constrained motion performance have conflicting requirements. The difficulties for both conditions are compounded when increased workspace is required as most solutions result in a reduction of achievable impedance and bandwidth. A method of chaining devices together to increase workspace without adverse effect on performance is described and analysed. The method is then applied to a prototype, colloquially known as 'The Flying Phantom', and shown to provide high-bandwidth, low impedance interaction over the full range of horizontal movement across the front of a human user.

A qualified defense of American drone attacks in northwest Pakistan under international humanitarian law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-State actors poses to the traditional inter- State orientation of international law. Questions related to the “adequacy” and “effectiveness” of international humanitarian law, international human rights law and the law related to the use of force have been particularly pronounced. This paper focuses on the international humanitarian law implications of American drone attacks in northwest Pakistan. A highly-advanced modality of modern warfare, armed drones highlight the possibilities, problems, prospects and pitfalls of high-tech warfare. How is the battlefield to be defined and delineated geographically and temporally? Who can be targeted, and by whom? Ultimately, this paper concludes that American drone attacks in northwest Pakistan are not unlawful as such under international humanitarian law, though, like any tactical decision in the context of asymmetric warfare, they should be continuously and closely monitored according to the dictates of law with sensitivity to facts on the ground.

Flying through extratropical cyclone Friedhelm

On 8 December 2011, Cyclone Friedhelm, an explosively deepening cyclone, passed across the UK, causing exceptionally strong winds over Scotland and strong winds over much of the UK. A research flight through this intense cyclone was undertaken as part of the DIAMET project. This article gives an account of the flight as experienced by the authors, who were aboard the aircraft. We describe the objectives of the flight and the measurements obtained, and use photographs taken during the flight to illustrate the cloud structures observed.