Radar Screen Research Articles

SURVEILLANCE RADAR DATA ON NOCTURNAL BIRD MIGRATION OVER ISRAEL, 1989–1993

ABSTRACT The circular-scanning approach radar at the Ben-Gurion International Airport has been a major tool in studying nocturnal migration over Israel during 1989–1993. Nocturnal migration was studied by photographs of the radar screen. Each photo was a continuous 10-min exposure, taken every half hour, from nightfall to dawn. The photographs allowed determination of direction, magnitude, schedule, and velocity of migration. Comparison of results from five years of observations showed that the diurnal and seasonal schedule of nocturnal migration, as well as the variation in direction during the night, exhibit a pattern that repeats itself yearly.

Symposium 9: Rocky Mountain Futures: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining Rocky Mountain Ecosystems

Symposium 9: Rocky Mountain Futures: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining Rocky Mountain Ecosystems

Great Selection – A Case Study

Contrary to popular belief, succession planning is not a new phenomenon. Companies have been wrestling with ways to identify, develop and retain their talent for decades. So why is succession planning suddenly popping up on every company’s radar screen? Today’s organizations are facing higher demands in a global market with the retirement of baby boomers and the widening talent gap. The home-grown and paper based succession planning is no longer meeting the needs of today’s workforce. Companies need to upgrade and redefine their succession planning initiatives to ensure that their process will benefit both the individual and the over all strategy of the company. This case study will help you: Identify and develop sources of information used for executive selection; Learn the various factors that must be taken into account in designing an executive job; Identify how organizations gain a sustainable competitive advantage through human capital strategies; and Identify the frame work for planning and scoping a project for a client.

Disguised Distress in Children and Adolescents “Flying Under The Radar”

It is now recognized that there is a very high prevalence of psychological disorders among children and adolescents and relatively few receive psychological treatment. In the current article, we present the argument that levels of distress and dysfunction among young people are substantially underestimated and the prevalence of psychological problems is higher than realized because of a variety of factors. In particular, it is suggested that psychological problems are underestimated due, in part, to the presence of subthreshold conditions that do not meet diagnostic criteria yet involve substantial distress and impairment. In addition, we focus on a subset of children and adolescents who experience profound distress yet keep it hidden or disguised because of a personality style characterized by self-concealment and a tendency to engage in perfectionistic self-presentation. The characteristics of these students who are “flying under the radar” are described with a discussion of associated familial, cultural, and school factors that reduce the likelihood of these students ever seeking help. Given our premise that psychological problems are substantially underestimated, it is apparent that schools have a vitally important role in mental health promotion in terms of the need for proactive system-wide preventive interventions led by school mental health counsellors. Broad programs are needed to bolster levels of resilience and the willingness to seek help among all children and adolescents but especially among those students who would otherwise not be on anyone’s radar screen.

Disaster Management in the Era of Lean Healthcare

Disaster Management in the Era of Lean Healthcare

PC-FACS 2013: A Year in Review (TH300)

1.Familiarize participants with the scope and breadth of new PC-FACS processes.2.Review new editorial roles and processes, spectrum of journals reviewed, number of reviews published, and topical areas.3.Highlight implications of cutting edge research of clinical value to AAHPM members.4.Review selected topical areas.5.Engage in a question and answer session. Recently, the field of hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) has undergone enormous growth, resulting in rapid expansion of our evidence base. Relevant literature is published not only in journals dedicated to HPM but also in an eclectic group of journals not in the typical domain of the HPM readership. Fast Article Critical Summaries for Clinicians in Palliative Care (PC-FACS), one of the highest rated member benefits of AAHPM, offers busy clinicians an efficient way to stay on top of pertinent literature that might not otherwise be on their radar screen and that is of practical clinical importance. Now in its eighth year, PC-FACS, delivered in a convenient electronic format to the e-mail boxes of Academy members, provides topical electronic summaries of just-published research from more than 100 journals that are not specifically dedicated to HPM. Members of the Editorial Board—peer experts selected from the Academy membership—author succinct, thought-provoking commentaries that have practical implications for practice. In 2012, PC-FACS underwent a change in administrative structure that has facilitated review of a much broader range of journals spanning diverse areas such as basic science, pediatrics and geriatrics, symptom assessment and management, the hospice and palliative medicine interface, psychosocial issue and bioethics, humanities, and spirituality. Using a variety of media and interactive techniques, Editor-in-Chief Donna S. Zhukovsky and Associate Editor-in-Chief Mellar Davis will start with an aerial view of the “next generation” of PC-FACS by a whirlwind tour of some of the most exciting topics reviewed during the past year. Session participants will have an opportunity to contribute their own perspectives of the literature for an enriched discussion of the clinical implications of this research.

China’s Fisheries Management Policy: An Interview with Tabitha Mallory

China’s Fisheries Management Policy: An Interview with Tabitha Mallory Tabitha Mallory (bio) 1. How has China’s fisheries management policy changed over time? China has some of the oldest fishing conservation measures in the world, like fishing bans and mesh size limits, which date to at least to the Zhou Dynasty, from 1046–256 B.C.E. There is evidence of resource strain toward the end of the Qing Dynasty in the eighteenth century, and coastal areas managed fisheries through local associations. From the beginning of the twentieth century, China borrowed many of the modernist fishing practices of industrialized countries, which were geared toward large-scale, scientific-based production of fish. China’s first fisheries school, the Aquatic Production Institute (modeled after the Japanese), was established in 1910 in Tianjin. Chinese fisheries were showing signs of overfishing in the 1930s, but the war period allowed the stocks to rebound. The Chinese Communist Party under Chairman Mao greatly expanded the fisheries sector even more efficiently than the Nationalists, whose fisheries institutions were preserved after the revolution. By the 1970s, however, some commercial stocks were collapsing. Dead fish are actually responsible for putting environmental protection on China’s radar screen after Mao. The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm coincided with two environmental crises in China, both involving fish. A toxic algae bloom decimated fish stocks in Dalian, while contaminated fish appeared in Beijing’s fish market. These events initiated the development of the domestic institutions that now govern China’s environment and natural resources. In the mid-1980s, China created two policies to address depleted fisheries. The state accelerated development of the aquaculture industry, and launched a distant water fishing industry. As a result of the new aquaculture policy, China is now the world’s largest producer of seafood. China is probably also the world’s largest producer of wild catch, though there is some question here because of data reliability. Over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, China’s marine resource conservation took shape: the Rio sustainability principles inspired China’s [End Page 85] Ocean Agenda 21; the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) created the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries in 1995; and China ratified the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1996. China’s new emphasis on sustainable development is reflected in current domestic laws and regulations governing domestic fisheries. However, the state’s economic goals have predominantly eclipsed sustainability targets when it comes to enforcement. 2. Can you discuss international perceptions of China’s current policies and their adherence to sustainable fisheries norms? China has done best implementing sustainable fisheries policies domestically, even though the state falls short of some targets. For example, the Bureau of Fisheries intended to decrease the size of China’s ocean fishing fleet by thirty thousand between 2002 and 2010, but ultimately fell short of this goal by twelve thousand. However, the central authority realizes that conserving domestic resources is in China’s direct interest for long-term domestic economic reasons. However, compliance and cooperation with fisheries institutions that govern international resources need improvement. China has signed (but not ratified) the Fish Stocks Agreement, which addresses straddling [fish that migrate between exclusive economic zones of one or more states] and highly migratory stocks. China has joined a number of regional fisheries management organizations in accordance with the agreement, and follows many of the requirements of these organizations, though there are some quality and accuracy problems with logbook and data reporting. China has not even signed the [UN’s 1993 FAO] Compliance Agreement, which establishes important standards for high seas fishing operations, and there is a dearth of discussion about the Agreement in Chinese sources. China has enormous challenges with illegal fishing, both regionally and globally, which negatively affects China’s relationships with other countries. Until the late 2000s, there was little discussion in Chinese sources of the international plan of action on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. However, a policy document from the Fisheries Bureau issued in early 2013 took up the issue, a sign that it has become a higher priority for the state. But no country has gotten...

Abenomics: Japan's New Economic Policy Package

ABSTRACT.This paper addresses Japan's economy, its new economic policy package, and the new term - Abenomics - that is used to describe the three pillars, or arrows, of the Abe government's focus on the Japanese economy and on economic policy. The term Abenomics is an example of brilliant branding. At the same time it is risky, since it implies Prime Minister Abe's success or failure will depend on the success or failure of Abenomics. This paper makes three major points. First, it is far too early to tell whether Abenomics will be successful - in ending deflation, bringing about price stability and getting the economy onto a stable, full employment growth path. Second, perhaps the most important change is the shift in people's feelings about Japan's future, from resignation to optimistic hope. However it is not at all clear that this new mindset will become deeply engrained and sustained. Third, we should distinguish between Abe as Prime Minister and Abenomics.JEL codes: E61; F42; G28Keywords: Japan; Abenomics; price stability; employment growthThis paper addresses Japan's economy, its new economic policy package, and the new term - Abenomics - that is used to describe the three pillars, or arrows, of the Abe government's focus on the Japanese economy and on economic policy. The term Abenomics is an example of brilliant branding. At the same time it is risky, since it implies Prime Minister Abe's success or failure will depend on the success or failure of Abenomics. Before going into more detail, this paper makes three major points.First, it is far too early to tell whether Abenomics will be successful - in ending deflation, bringing about price stability and getting the economy onto a stable, full employment growth path. The initial evidence is certainly positive, but there is a long way to go.Second, perhaps the most important change is the shift in people's feelings about Japan's future, from resignation - sho ga nai - to optimistic hope. Revitalization is a somewhat strange term, especially regarding the economy, but that is one catch word that is being used. Economists use the term expectations, but what is going on is deeper than that. This optimism is propelled in large part because many Japanese are sick and tired of the malaise of the past two decades, and have been eager to buy into Abenomics, probably a lot more than buying into Abe himself as an outstanding leader. However it is not at all clear that this new mindset will become deeply engrained and sustained.Third, we should distinguish between Abe and Abenomics. It is possible that both will succeed. Or it is possible that Abe will fail as Prime Minister but that his successor will embrace the Abenomics economic policy program, and forward momentum will continue. Or, the three arrow package will not be implemented sufficiently well, and Abenomics and Abe will fail. But that does not mean the end of Japan. Japan will muddle through once again; it is quite experienced and good at that.It is easy to label Japan as having suffered from its so-called two lost decades. In a broad sense that is true - modest but pernicious deflation, inadequate domestic demand, mediocre growth below potential, weak labor markets and a widespread sense of malaise. Over the period growth has been volatile - recessions, recoveries, growth, the sharp decline in 2009 as the global Great Recession hit all high income countries, Japan's partial recovery and then slide back to modest recession again in 2012, and now rapid recovery - at least this year.But that is too simple a statement of what has been going on in Japan over the past two decades.First, there has been a great deal of change in institutions, organizations, corporate and personal behavior, generational values, and various other changes below the radar screen. Japan is quite different today from 20 years ago.Second, the demographic realities of a declining labor force since 1995 and now declining population have already had a big effect and will continue to have a big effect; and they provide lessons for Korea and China as well as Europe. …

Under the (legal) radar screen: global health initiatives and international human rights obligations.

BackgroundGiven that many low income countries are heavily reliant on external assistance to fund their health sectors the acceptance of obligations of international assistance and cooperation with regard to the right to health (global health obligations) is insufficiently understood and studied by international health and human rights scholars. Over the past decade Global Health Initiatives, like the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) have adopted novel approaches to engaging with stakeholders in high and low income countries. This article explores how this experience impacted on acceptance of the international obligation to (help) fulfil the right to health beyond borders.MethodsThe authors conducted an extensive review of international human rights law literature, transnational legal process literature, global public health literature and grey literature pertaining to Global Health Initiatives. To complement this desk work and deepen their understanding of how and why different legal norms evolve the authors conducted 19 in-depth key informant interviews with actors engaged with three stakeholders; the European Union, the United States and Belgium. The authors then analysed the interviews through a transnational legal process lens.ResultsThrough according value to the process of examining how and why different legal norms evolve transnational legal process offers us a tool for engaging with the dynamism of developments in global health suggesting that operationalising global health obligations could advance the right to health for all.ConclusionsIn many low-income countries the health sector is heavily dependent on external assistance to fulfil the right to health of people thus it is vital that policies and tools for delivering reliable, long-term assistance are developed so that the right to health for all becomes more than a dream. Our research suggests that the Global Fund experience offers lessons to build on.

Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome: Is it on Your Radar Screen?

Nurse practitioners (NPs) often manage patients with exertional lower extremity pain from claudication. When the patient is an older individual, the leading cause is atherosclerosis, especially if the patient smokes or has diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. But what if the patient is an adult younger than 50 or a teenager who presents with symptoms of exertional lower extremity pain in the absence of these risk factors? This article discusses why popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) should be high on the list of differential diagnoses when a younger patient presents with claudication symptoms.

AATS 2012: “To model excellence”

In Dr Schaff’s exceedingly generous introduction, you have learned more than you need to know about this 60-year-old smiling public man. These introductions often evoke 2 reactions: of predestination and inevitability, looking back, or uncertainty, even impossibility, when trying to imagine looking forward from the past. I score myself highly on the impossibilities. Not that many years ago, I stood in the back of this meeting and very sincerely doubted that I would ever be a member, let alone your President, and for this miracle I am humbly grateful to you all—and, like everyone who has stood here before, I owe much of my good fortune to many, many others, who I cannot begin to enumerate. A select few include my administrative staff (Figure 1), our physician’s assistants (Figure 2), the cardiac anesthesia team (Figure 3), and the perfusion team (Figure 4). Seymour Schwartz is an amazing, multitalented man who convinced me to train at Columbia Presbyterian—once he accepted that I could not be dissuaded from what he called ‘‘that cardiac junk’’ (Figure 5). At Columbia, I had the good fortune to be trained by many outstanding surgeons—Henry Spotnitz, Tom King, and Fred Jaretzki and, in very special ways, by Eric Rose and Fred Bowman (Figure 6). I also had the privilege of training under 2 previous American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) presidents, Jim Malm and Keith Reemtsma (Figure 7). Dr Malm was my host at my first AATS meeting, and I am honored that he and Connie are here today. Standing out, even among these standouts, are the 4 people who make it all work every day, and I am flattered that Angie, Suzanne, Dana, and Larry are also here today (Figure 8). Last, but not least, I thank the outstanding group of

The Critical Need for a Sensitive—and Sensible—National Transportation Policy

The Critical Need for a Sensitive—and Sensible—National Transportation Policy Constance E. Beaumont (bio) The article below made two arguments back in 1991: ◾ First, we could alleviate pressing national problems if federal transportation policy better supported community efforts to reduce auto-dependence; and ◾ Second, historic downtowns, main streets, and neighborhoods embody land use and urban design features that help communities to achieve this reduction. The context for this article was the run-up to Congress' enactment of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). Throughout that year, a coalition of preservationists, planners, environmentalists, and advocates of alternate travel modes met weekly at the National Trust for Historic Preservation to devise strategies for improving this major transportation law. The coalition won approval for several provisions that benefited historic preservation. For example, ISTEA encouraged "multi-modalism" by giving states more flexibility to use transportation dollars for pedestrian, bicycle, and transit modes, which generally cause less harm to historic places than roads and highways. ISTEA also created a Transportation Enhancements Program, which funded many projects that advance preservation goals—e.g., historic rail station renovations and downtown sidewalks. It's as true today as it was in 1991 that by making our transportation system less car-dependent, we alleviate serious problems: over-reliance on foreign oil, oppressive energy bills, and climate change linked to more frequent, more intense storms. As public concerns over these problems have intensified, so, too, has the demand for "sustainability" and energy-efficient "green buildings." Preservationists quickly point out, however, that the greenest building is often the one already built. They note that cross-ventilating windows, extra-thick walls, and other features of historic structures can make such buildings as energy-efficient as the newest green building. Moreover, experts say it can take years for a new green building to overcome, through more efficient operations, negative climate change impacts created during its construction. But how people get to a building, not just how they heat or cool it, matters, too. Thus preservationists might also argue that the "greenness" of a historic building doesn't end at the building's skin. Land use, urban design, and locational features that characterize most historic downtowns, main streets, and neighborhoods typically produce an environment that enables "carbon-lite" transportation modes: walking, bicycling, and using transit. These features, described in [End Page 14] greater detail below, include mixed land uses, narrower streets, shorter blocks, more intersections, compact town centers, and centrally-located schools, stores, and job centers. Taken together, these features yield two important things: shorter travel distances and walkability. This means people can reach more destinations without driving— or by driving less far, less often. When transportation policies protect historic areas and recognize the relevance of historic land use and urban design concepts to mobility in newly developing areas, we expand transportation options in a way that cuts greenhouse gas emissions, foreign oil imports, and travel costs. We also help to tackle one problem not on the radar screen in 1991: today's national obesity epidemic. A common prescription for obesity? Walking. A great place to do that? Walkable historic neighborhoods. If we could cut the national deficit, reduce oil imports from the Middle East, make housing more affordable for young families, clean the air, alleviate the isolation of the elderly, improve our mobility, and enhance community life all through a single piece of legislation, shouldn't we try to do so? Through changes in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA), the federal highway bill now moving through Congress, we could make headway this year on each of these goals and more. Unfortunately, it is entirely possible that this opportunity will come and go without much public notice. For decades the mainstay of America's transportation system has been the private automobile. Today 72 percent of all personal travel in the United States is done by car, 86 percent if light trucks and vans are included with cars. The average American household now allocates 18.7 percent of its budget to transportation expenses, most of which are auto-related. That is more than it spends for food, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Collectively, Americans now contribute...

What's the Prognosis? Making Infusion Systems Safer

<i>What's the Prognosis?</i> Making Infusion Systems Safer

Paraplegia is not a diagnosis: Spinal tuberculosis deserves a place on the clinical radar screen: Awakening call to clinicians

Disseminated Tuberculosis(TB) occurs through lymphohaematogenous dissemination of M. tuberculosis. Although it is more common in young children and those who are having risk factors like having acquired or innate immunodeficiency, weak immune system being on immunosuppressive treatments; it can also occur in immunocompetent indviduals with heavy load of infection. Inhalation being the commonest mode of entry of the pathogen results in pulmonary tuberculosis being the commonest seat of primary infection,other systems commonly involved as extra-pulmonary sites are lymphnodes, bone, brain, peritonium and genitalia depending on the amount of relative blood supply and lymphatics. We present here case of a young female who was immunocompetent, having fever, progressive lower limb weakness and loss of bowel and bladder control, becoming bed bound, and admitted in our hospital for rehabilitation with a diagnosis of paraplegia.

A Memoir of Gender Transition

A Memoir of Gender Transition

Introduction

Introduction

Vuur, as en water:

There are groups that prefer to keep themselves below the radar screen of politics and public opinion. This may be indicative of their preferred acculturation strategy as well as of their inability to come forward with a collectively supported representation. In the Netherlands Hindustanis – a group consisting of around 100,000 people with a background of labour migration from India to Surinam, a Dutch colony at that time – may well be in such a situation. By looking more closely at the various processes of loss, maintenance and proliferation regarding the current state of their death rituals I illustrate how below-radar styles of negotiation may work to their advantage.

Scientist Citizen: An Interview with Bruce Alberts

As the PLoS Genetics editorial board prepared for its first scientific meeting in San Francisco, its leaders proposed that I conduct an interview “live” as a feature of the proceedings, and I knew immediately whom I wanted to snare: Bruce Alberts, our own UCSF (University of California San Francisco) faculty member extraordinaire, who had long been on my radar screen for an interview.

Ensemble rainfall forecasting with numerical weather prediction and radar‐based nowcasting models

AbstractThe overall objective of this study is to improve the forecasting accuracy of the precipitation in the Singapore region by means of both rainfall forecasting and nowcasting. Numerical Weather Predication (NWP) and radar‐based rainfall nowcasting are two important sources for quantitative precipitation forecast. In this paper, an attempt to combine rainfall prediction from a high‐resolution mesoscale weather model and a radar‐based rainfall model was performed. Two rainfall forecasting methods were selected and examined: (i) the weather research and forecasting model (WRF); and (ii) a translation model (TM). The WRF model, at a high spatial resolution, was run over the domain of interest using the Global Forecast System data as initializing fields. Some heavy rainfall events were selected from data record and used to test the forecast capability of WRF and TM. Results obtained from TM and WRF were then combined together to form an ensemble rainfall forecasting model, by assigning weights of 0.7 and 0.3 weights to TM and WRF, respectively. This paper presented results from WRF and TM, and the resulting ensemble rainfall forecasting; comparisons with station data were conducted as well. It was shown that results from WRF are very useful as advisory of anticipated heavy rainfall events, whereas those from TM, which used information of rain cells already appearing on the radar screen, were more accurate for rainfall nowcasting as expected. The ensemble rainfall forecasting compares reasonably well with the station observation data. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Safe and Secure? Healthcare in The Cyberworld

Safe and Secure? Healthcare in The Cyberworld