This paper describes the role of transient simulations, heuristic techniques, and real-time integrated control in designing and sizing habitat life support systems. The integration of these three elements allows for more accurate requirements to be derived in advance of hardware choices. As a test case, we used a typical lunar surface habitat. Large numbers of habitat configurations were rapidl...

The Ball Aerospace Total SightTM Flash LiDAR and real time processing system provides real-time digital elevation map creation and dissemination. This unique capability is critical for mapping applications where data latency cannot be tolerated. These applications include rapid response disaster relief efforts, improved battlefield characterization and more timely and accurate military targetin...

The most challenging mission of medical personnel today is quality assurance in health care. To meet this challenge, the essential elements of a six-phase system for total quality control for the medical laboratory are outlined under the headings of design control, incoming material control, process control, output control, reliability control, and special verification studies. Review of existi...

the world has made a great deal of progress through the millennium development goals (mdgs) to improve the health and well-being of people around the globe, but there remains a long way to go. here we provide reflections on rwanda’s experience in working to meet the health-related targets of the mdgs. this experience has informed our proposal of five guiding principles that may be useful for co...

This paper describes two algorithms for accurately locating a spherical object in space using data collected from a scanning laser range finder. This work is designed to support the capture phase of a future rendezvous and sample return mission to Mars. The first algorithm finds the parameters of the sphere which optimally fit the set of data points. This method is shown to be quite slow, and u...

The antiquities of Jammu and Kashmir reveal that women might have enjoyed a high status as elsewhere in India. But ,there was a marked deterioration in the position of women. Female children were not much desired and their sufferings became endless with the beginning of inroads of Turko-Afghan tribes for whom carrying away of women formed the prized item of booty. This situation gave new dimens...

In the UK and Ireland, the context in which CALL is developing in higher education is changing. Language teachers in universities may increasingly be involved in CALL development and research, but their universities are simultaneously increasing formal central support for all staff in adopting and exploiting new technologies. In both CALL, and this wider adoption of technology, we see distinct ...