Preparing Public Administration Scholars for Qualitative Inquiry: A Status Report

A Strategy for Analyzing Public Comments and Preparing the Round 2 Status Report

Introduction This report was developed for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the first deliverable under Purchase Order 43SBNB067018. It is intended to suggest one or more strategies that the Computer Security Division at NIST can use to 1) systematically organize and analyze public comments on the AES finalists and the AES process, and 2) prepare a Round 2 status rep...

The Francis Public Inquiry Report: a response

Preparing GEO 600 for gravitational wave astronomy—a status report

A number of gravitational wave detectors throughout the world are currently moving from the final stages of commissioning to a more continuous observational mode. Together, these detectors form a global network which will search for gravitational waves from various astrophysical sources, such as continuous wave signals from rotating neutron stars, transient signals from, for example, inspiralli...

Preparing teacher-scholars to reduce health disparities.

Health disparities are a major public health problem in the United States. Doctorally prepared nurse scholars, who understand factors contributing to these disparities, possess research competence to study these factors, and pose strategies to be tested are essential to improve the health of these vulnerable populations. This article describes how a PhD curriculum was designed to prepare teache...

Formalization of Crisis Response Coordination from a Public Inquiry Report

We assess the usability of public inquiry report data to build a formal trace that can be used in later stages to create an agent model simulating crisis response coordination. The case taken is a train tunnel fire near the underground train station at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol that turned out to be harmless, but the incident illustrated key weaknesses in inter-organizational coordination caus...