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The Town of Farragut has been investing in ways to improve traffic flow and congestion throughout town. Hear from town engineers as they detail the upcoming phase one of installing an Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS), which will use state-of-the-art technology to more efficiently monitor traffic conditions and alter light patterns to account for traffic disruptions.

The Town of Farragut has been investing in ways to improve traffic flow and congestion throughout town. Hear from town engineers as they detail the upcoming phase one of installing an Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS), which will use state-of-the-art technology to more efficiently monitor traffic conditions and alter light patterns to account for traffic disruptions.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-311) and index

You can earn your project management certification through online study. 400+ modules, 100%  self-paced. Designed for all levels. Start today with APMIC’s advanced program.

You can earn your project management certification through online study. 400+ modules, 100%  self-paced. Designed for all levels. Start today with APMIC’s advanced program.

You can earn your project management certification through online study. 400+ modules, 100%  self-paced. Designed for all levels. Start today with APMIC’s advanced program.

In the fast-evolving landscape of IT, the use of nontraditional artificial intelligence (AI) tools is transforming project management by improving efficiency and streamlining workflows. This paper examines the implementation of advanced AI technologies, including machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and predictive analytics, within IT project management. These technologies enable real-time data analysis, automated task prioritization, and effective resource allocation, supporting better decision-making and enhanced risk management. Through the analysis of case studies and current AI adoption practices, this research demonstrates how AI tools are fostering operational efficiency, shortening project timelines, and boosting success rates in IT projects. The findings indicate that strategically integrating AI tools can greatly improve project outcomes, making them vital components for future IT management strategies.

In the fast-evolving landscape of IT, the use of nontraditional artificial intelligence (AI) tools is transforming project management by improving efficiency and streamlining workflows. This paper examines the implementation of advanced AI technologies, including machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and predictive analytics, within IT project management. These technologies enable real-time data analysis, automated task prioritization, and effective resource allocation, supporting better decision-making and enhanced risk management. Through the analysis of case studies and current AI adoption practices, this research demonstrates how AI tools are fostering operational efficiency, shortening project timelines, and boosting success rates in IT projects. The findings indicate that strategically integrating AI tools can greatly improve project outcomes, making them vital components for future IT management strategies.

Student manual

Student manual

Student manual

The goal of the Advanced Communications for Air Traffic Management (AC/ATM) Project at the NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is to enable a communications infrastructure that provides the capacity, efficiency, and flexibility necessary to realize a mature free-flight environment. The technical thrust of the AC/ATM Project is targeted at the design, development, integration, test, and demonstration of enabling technologies for global broadband aeronautical communications. Since Ku-band facilities and equipment are readily available, one of the near-term demonstrations involves a link through a Kuband communications satellite. Two conformally mounted antennas will support the initial AC/ATM communications links. Both of these are steered electronically through monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) amplifiers and phase shifters. This link will be asymmetrical with the downlink to the aircraft (mobile vehicle) at a throughput rate of greater than 1.5 megabits per second (Mbps), whereas the throughput rate of the uplink from the aircraft will be greater than 100 kilobits per second (kbps). The data on the downlink can be narrow-band, wide-band, or a combination of both, depending on the requirements of the experiment. The AC/ATM project is purchasing a phased-array Ku-band transmitting antenna for the uplink from the test vehicle. Many Ku-band receiving antennas have been built, and one will be borrowed for a short time to perform the initial experiments at the NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. The Ku-band transmitting antenna is a 254-element MMIC phased-array antenna being built by Boeing Phantom Works. Each element can radiate 100 mW. The antenna is approximately 43-cm high by 24-cm wide by 3.3-cm thick. It can be steered beyond 60 from broadside. The beamwidth varies from 6 at broadside to 12 degrees at 60 degrees, which is typical of phased-array antennas. When the antenna is steered to 60 degrees, the beamwidth will illuminate approximately five satellites on the orbital arc. Spread spectrum techniques will be employed to keep the power impinging on the adjacent satellites below their noise floor so that no interference results. This antenna is power limited. If the antenna elements (currently 254) are increased by a factor of 4 (1024) or 16 (4096), the gain will increase and the beamwidth will decrease in proportion. For the latter two antenna sizes, the power must be "backed off" to prevent interference with the neighboring satellites. The receiving antenna, which is approximately 90-cm high, 60-cm wide, and 3.5-cm thick, is composed of 1500 phased-array elements. The system phased-array controller can control both a 1500-element receiving antenna and a 500-element transmitting antenna. For ground testing, this controller will allow manual beam pointing and polarization alignment. For normal operation, the system can be connected to the receiving antenna and the navigation system for real-time autonomous track operation. This will be accomplished by first pointing both antennas at the satellite using information from the aircraft data bus. Then, the system phased-array controller will electronically adjust the antenna pointing of the receiving antenna to find the peak signal. After the peak signal has been found, the beam of the transmitting antenna will be pointed to the same steering angles as the receiving antenna. For initial ground testing without an aircraft, the ARINC 429 data bus (ARINC Inc., Annapolis, Maryland) will be simulated by a gyro system purchased for the follow-on to the Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) Arrays for Satellite Communication on the Move (MASCOM) Project. MASCOM utilized the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) with a pair of Ka-band experimental phased-array antennas.

Includes Passnotes booklet. Booklet is 3rd ed

Includes Passnotes booklet. Booklet is 3rd ed

Human Body is an extremely intricate and modern structure and involves a huge number of capacities. All these muddled capacities have been comprehended by man him, part-by-part their exploration and tests. As science and innovation advanced, pharmaceutical turned into a necessary part of the exploration. Continuously, restorative science turned into an altogether new branch of science. Starting today, the Health Sector involves Medical establishments i.e. Healing facilities, HOSPITALs and so forth innovative work foundations and medicinal universities. In this way the Health division goes for giving the best therapeutic offices to the basic man.

Human Body is an extremely intricate and modern structure and involves a huge number of capacities. All these muddled capacities have been comprehended by man him, part-by-part their exploration and tests. As science and innovation advanced, pharmaceutical turned into a necessary part of the exploration. Continuously, restorative science turned into an altogether new branch of science. Starting today, the Health Sector involves Medical establishments i.e. Healing facilities, HOSPITALs and so forth innovative work foundations and medicinal universities. In this way the Health division goes for giving the best therapeutic offices to the basic man.

This technical report describes the modeling of MIL-STD-1521B (the Military Standard for Technical Reviews and Audits for Systems, Equipments, and Computer Programs) using a Macintosh-based, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) project Management software application. The application, MacProject 11 (a product of Claris Corporation), is an integrated tool of Rome Laboratory's Software Life Cycle Support Environment (SLCSE) Project Management System (SPMS) . Project Management, SLCSE, Productivity, MIL-STD-1521B, SPMS, Automation, Software Life Cycle, Modeling, CASE.

This document is the viewgraphs from a presentation concerning the development of the Health Management system for the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME). It reviews the historical background of the SSME Advanced Health Management effort through the present final Health management configuration. The document includes reviews of three subsystems to the Advanced Health Management System: (1) the Real-Time Vibration Monitor System, (2) the Linear Engine Model, and (3) the Optical Plume Anomaly Detection system.

This document is the viewgraphs from a presentation concerning the development of the Health Management system for the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME). It reviews the historical background of the SSME Advanced Health Management effort through the present final Health management configuration. The document includes reviews of three subsystems to the Advanced Health Management System: (1) the Real-Time Vibration Monitor System, (2) the Linear Engine Model, and (3) the Optical Plume Anomaly Detection system.

Human Body is an extremely intricate and modern structure and involves a huge number of capacities. All these muddled capacities have been comprehended by man him, part-by-part their exploration and tests. As science and innovation advanced, pharmaceutical turned into a necessary part of the exploration. Continuously, restorative science turned into an altogether new branch of science. Starting today, the Health Sector involves Medical establishments i.e. Healing facilities, HOSPITALs and so forth innovative work foundations and medicinal universities. In this way the Health division goes for giving the best therapeutic offices to the basic man.

Human Body is an extremely intricate and modern structure and involves a huge number of capacities. All these muddled capacities have been comprehended by man him, part-by-part their exploration and tests. As science and innovation advanced, pharmaceutical turned into a necessary part of the exploration. Continuously, restorative science turned into an altogether new branch of science. Starting today, the Health Sector involves Medical establishments i.e. Healing facilities, HOSPITALs and so forth innovative work foundations and medicinal universities. In this way the Health division goes for giving the best therapeutic offices to the basic man.

An evaluation of the NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) strategy to implement Total Quality Management (TQM) in the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) Project is presented. The evaluation of the implementation strategy reflected the Civil Service personnel perspective at the project level. The external and internal environments at MSFC were analyzed for their effects on the ASRM TQM strategy. Organizational forms, cultures, management systems, problem solving techniques, and training were assessed for their influence on the implementation strategy. The influence of ASRM's effort was assessed relative to its impact on mature projects as well as future projects at MSFC.

1Planet of the Damned

By Harry Harrison

Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical and mental competition among the best and smartest people on Anvhar. But scarcely able to enjoy his victory, Brandd is swept off to the hellish planet Dis where he must use his heightened sense of empathy to help avert a global nuclear holocaust by negotiating with the blockading fleet, traversing the Disan underworld, and cracking the mystery of the savagely ruthless magter.<br> Summary by Great Plains

2Deathworld

By Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat stories and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was adapted for film as Soylent Green. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized by humanity. Violent weather, active tectonics, heavy gravity, abundant predators, and a hostile splinter group of colonists is only the beginning of Jason’s quest to learn the truth about Pyrrus. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

3Ethical Engineer (Deathworld 2)

By Harry Harrison

“The Ethical Engineer” also known as “Deathworld II” finds our hero Jason dinAlt captured to face justice for his crimes, but the ever-wily gambler crashes his transport on a primitive planet populated by clans that hoard knowledge. It’s a difficult situation for a guy who just wants to get back to Pyrrus. – The Ethical Engineer was first published in the July and August 1963 issues of Analog Science Fact & Fiction. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

4Old-Fashioned Fairy Book

By Constance Cary Harrison

"And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real, truly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch and the ogre; and please don't have any moral, only let everybody 'live in peace and die in a pot of grease,' at the end of it." "To be sure, we know most of mamma's stories by heart," said the sage elder of nine. "If she could only make up some new ones that aren't in any of our books! Or else, mamma, tell us something you heard a little bit of, long, long ago, from your nurse, and then make up the rest. But whatever one you tell, we'll be sure to like it anyhow." The stories told, the mother fell to musing, and the result is the little book here presented to the judgment of children other than her own—a few new fairy tales, on the old, old pattern! (Summary by Constance Cary Harrison (in her Introduction)).

5Misplaced Battleship

By Harry Harrison

"It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship—in the wrong hands!—can be most dangerous." The world class con man and thief known as the Stainless Steel Rat (diGriz) has another very big problem to solve and this science fiction novella by the great Harry Harrison will see if he can solve it and perhaps four or five more like it before this fascinating and funny tale is finished. 'Use a thief to catch a thief' sounds great but it sometimes has unexpected results. (Summary from the book and Phil Chenevert)

6K-Factor

By Harry Harrison

The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are still humans and remain both honorable and not so honorable; some with high ideals and others with very low ones indeed. So why hasn't war occurred in several centuries among the hundreds of planets? Has man really changed? Not on your life it hasn't! Read how science has given man peace but at what cost?

7Arm of the Law

By Harry Harrison

A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit - in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and scary things that begin to happen after that, as only he can.

8Repairman

By Harry Harrison

This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were published in Galaxy, Analog and Fantastic Universe. The Repairman (1958) is a straight fun SF story of a man getting a job done. It is most typical of his later style in series like the Stainless Steel Rat; Toy Shop (1962), a short piece exploring bureaucratic blindness and one ingenious way around it and The Velvet Glove (1956), my favorite for its writing style, fun perspective, sly social commentary on the scene in 1956 and just plain delightful imagination. And he manages to pack excitement and mystery in at the same time.</p>

9Planet of the Damned (Version 2)

By Harry Harrison

Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once—but they were something else now. The Magter had only one desire—Kill! Kill everything, themselves, their planet, the universe if they could—Brion Brandd was sent in at the eleventh hour. His mission was to save Dis, but it looked as though he was going to preside over its annihilation. Space derring Do. Rip roaring action. Evil Aliens. A bewildered hero. Lots of fun. ( phil chenevert)Space derring Do. Lots of fun. - Summary by phil chenevert

10Deathworld (version 2)

By Harry Harrison

A world that actively seeks to kill the colonists. Not a pleasant place. The hordes of ferocious animals all come with deadly poison and a will to kill as many humans as possible. Even the plants have teeth and claws and toxins dripping from every surface. They fly, crawl and run for the chance to sink something terrible into a human arm or leg. Oh, and did I mention the 2G gravity? Pyrrus is it's name. The settlers there were supermen... twice as strong as ordinary men and with instantaneous reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder...a 3 year old Pyrrian had a loaded gun strapped to his forearm and knew how to use it or he was a dead 3 year old. It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation...if he could stay alive long enough to even make a start - Summary by phil chenevert

11State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1889 - 1892)

By Benjamin Harrison

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows the President to outline his legislative agenda (for which he needs the cooperation of Congress) and national priorities. This album contains recordings of addresses from Benjamin Harrison. - Summary by Wikipedia

Edith Ogden Harrison's first published work, <i>Prince Silverwings</i>, is a collection of seven fairy tales for young readers. It is perhaps best known as the source of an unsuccessful stage collaboration with L. Frank Baum, ultimately providing inspiration for several of Baum's Oz books. (Summary by Steven Fellows)

13Planet of the Damned (Version 3)

By Harry Harrison

Two planets are about to engage in a nuclear war that will destroy one of them. Millions will perish. Brion Brandd, who lives on neither planet, has been recruited by the Cultural Relationships Foundation to stop the war from happening. He is only person in the galaxy who can do it, but can he? A classic 1962 science fiction short novel by master Harry Harrison. (Summary by M. Nelson)

14Stainless Steel Rat

By Harry Harrison

This is the story that inspired and kicked off the Stainless Steel Rat series of stories and novels by Harry Harrison. A slippery con man and thief, frustrating every police force on every planet for years, finally meets a worthy adversary in the Special Corps. Slippery Jim deGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat himself, goes on to have many adventures but this is the first...and the last in a way. After this, his cunning and crooked mind is put to the bigger task of saving the universe from itself. Which he does with zest, self interest and sense of fun that describe the Stainless Steel Rat. (Summary by phil chenevert)

Published between 1833 and 1841, the 90 Tracts were written by various members of "The Oxford Movement". They cover various aspects of Anglo-Catholic doctrine and other theological matters. The lead was taken by John Henry Newman (who made the largest contribution), but several other churchmen associated with Oxford University were also involved, among them John Keble, Hurrell Froude, and Edward Pusey. Among the newly written tracts were also re-prints of works from previous generations. The Tracts are of various lengths, ranging from a few pages to book-length works. The format and cheap prices, meant that the Tracts were widely disseminated. Volumes 1 and 2 also had new translations of the works of the early Fathers of the church appended to the end.<br><br> Volume 1 contains Tracts 1 to 46, along with 18 "Records of the Church". These last include all the extant epistles of St. Ignatius, alongside works by Justin Martyr, Irenæus, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian. Four accounts of martyrdoms and a tale of St. John round out the collection. (Summary by Beeswaxcandle)

16Stainless Steel Rat - the Novel

By Harry Harrison

James Bolivar diGriz alias Slippery Jim alias The Stainless Steel Rat. Interstellar con man, crook and thief. Bane of the elite law enforcement squad, the Special Corps. And while pulling-off a successful bank job, why not also save the galaxy? Just because you’re committing crimes doesn’t mean you can’t also have a good time! - Summary by The Narrator

Jane Ellen Harrison was an English classical scholar whose work had a particular focus on the earliest origins of Greek religion. Her Mythology is a popular rather than an academic book, and its subject is the psychological/cultural history and “purpose” of the chief Olympian gods and certain other mythological creatures, both for the ancient Greeks themselves, and through history to the present day. It is a short, accessible, and engaging book in a similar style to Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. (Summary by ChristineB)