Implementing a pavement management system: The Caltrans experience

Caltrans Accelerated Pavement Test

Implementing the National Incident Management System as a Framework for Travel Medicine in Haiti

Introduction: For the past 7 years, a nursing school has conducted biannual medical missions in a virtually inaccessible area in Haiti. Each medical mission team provides primary care, pediatric and gynecological examinations for up to 6 days in the impoverished island nation. Methods: To improve the safety of participants engaged in this humanitarian tra...

Implementing a Management-Directed Information System

The CEO of the University Research Foundation (URF), Dave Norton, decided to sponsor an information systems (IS) development project to facilitate automation of discovery disclosure tracking. Discovery disclosure is the process at URF that tracks establishment and progress of funded (federal grants and contracts) inventions, innovations, and discoveries made by principle investigators (PIs). Da...

Implementing BRICKS, a Digital Library Management System

Digital Libraries (DLs) play a central role in the way information is produced, accessed and used in the Internet era. While the Web provides a universal access to uncontrolled information resources, DLs allow large, distributed repositories of multimedia content, annotated with possibly rich semantic structures and regulated by digital rights, to be created and managed to satisfy the needs of ...

Experience of Modelling and Implementing a Quality of Service Management System

This paper presents the experience from modelling and implementing a Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) Quality of Service (QoS) management system, based closely on the principles of the evolving TMN standard [M.3010]. The latter is based the OSI Management model and suggests the use of its protocols. The management information models (Managed Objects MOs) for each TMN layer, their rel...