scholarly journals Lessons Learned from Chicago Wilderness—Implementing and Sustaining Conservation Management in an Urban Setting

Diversity ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Heneghan ◽  
Christopher Mulvaney ◽  
Kristen Ross ◽  
Lauren Umek ◽  
Cristy Watkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Chicago Wilderness

scholarly journals A Connected Autonomous Vehicle Testbed: Capabilities, Experimental Processes and Lessons Learned

Automation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Thomas Kent ◽  
Anthony Pipe ◽  
Arthur Richards ◽  
Jim Hutchinson ◽  
Wolfgang Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Stable Set ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
High Level ◽  
Key Steps

VENTURER was one of the first three UK government funded research and innovation projects on Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and was conducted predominantly in the South West region of the country. A series of increasingly complex scenarios conducted in an urban setting were used to: (i) evaluate the technology created as a part of the project; (ii) systematically assess participant responses to CAVs and; (iii) inform the development of potential insurance models and legal frameworks. Developing this understanding contributed key steps towards facilitating the deployment of CAVs on UK roads. This paper aims to describe the VENTURER Project trials, their objectives and detail some of the key technologies used. Importantly we aim to introduce some informative challenges that were overcame and the subsequent project and technological lessons learned in a hope to help others plan and execute future CAV research. The project successfully integrated several technologies crucial to CAV development. These included, a Decision Making System using behaviour trees to make high level decisions; A pilot-control system to smoothly and comfortably turn plans into throttle and steering actuation; Sensing and perception systems to make sense of raw sensor data; Inter-CAV Wireless communication capable of demonstrating vehicle-to-vehicle communication of potential hazards. The closely coupled technology integration, testing and participant-focused trial schedule led to a greatly improved understanding of the engineering and societal barriers that CAV development faces. From a behavioural standpoint the importance of reliability and repeatability far outweighs a need for novel trajectories, while the sensor-to-perception capabilities are critical, the process of verification and validation is extremely time consuming. Additionally, the added capabilities that can be leveraged from inter-CAV communications shows the potential for improved road safety that could result. Importantly, to effectively conduct human factors experiments in the CAV sector under consistent and repeatable conditions, one needs to define a scripted and stable set of scenarios that uses reliable equipment and a controllable environmental setting. This requirement can often be at odds with making significant technology developments, and if both are part of a project’s goals then they may need to be separated from each other.

Training and Assessing Complex Decision-Making in a Virtual Environment

2002 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 871-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Pleban ◽  
Michael D. Matthews ◽  
Margaret S. Salter ◽  
David E. Eakin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Small Unit ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Computer Generated Forces ◽  
Complex Decision Making ◽  
Complex Decision

The current report describes a procedure for training and assessing complex decision-making in a virtual environment. Focusing on small unit leaders, 7 experienced and 7 inexperienced Army platoon leaders performed missions in a combat simulator, where they were required to direct the activities of 3 subordinate leaders and computer-generated forces in 4 different operations in a virtual urban setting. Objective and subjective assessments of the training value of the simulations showed that both experienced an inexperienced platoon leaders improved their decision-making across the four missions, and both groups rated this “virtual environment” training procedure as useful and positive. Lessons learned and implications for designing similar training protocols for other domains are discussed.

An influenza pandemic exercise in a major urban setting, Part I: Hospital health systems lessons learned and implications for future planning

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy H. Lyons, RN, MSL ◽  
Frederick M. Burkle Jr, MD, MPH, DTM, FAAP, FACEP ◽  
Deborah L. Roepke, MPA ◽  
James E. Bertz, MD, DDS, FACS
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Healthcare Leadership ◽  
Emergency Operations Center ◽  
Pandemic Flu

A 2007 pandemic exercise in Maricopa County, Arizona, the 5th largest urban population in the United States, revealed major vulnerabilities in planning, response, resource utilization, and the decision-making process, which would be common to any large urban setting where multiple independent organizations exist and have not yet coordinated or shared their plans. Communication challenges are both prevalent and magnified in large urban settings.There must be tough, broad-based decision making by healthcare leadership with guidance and processes at every level to assure compliance to the primary goals of pandemic flu plans necessary to control the transmission rate of the disease. A unifying decision-making element such as a Healthrelated Emergency Operations Center is critical for the coordination, which serves all urban health systems. Education and training in pre-event protocols for triage management is crucial at every level where resources will be scant. This is especially true in admissions to intensive care units and priorities for ventilator use.

Influence of Personal Armor on Distribution of Entry Wounds: Lessons Learned from Urban-Setting Warfare Fatalities

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1236-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yona Kosashvili ◽  
Jehuda Hiss ◽  
Nadav Davidovic ◽  
Guy Lin ◽  
Boaz Kalmovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Urban Setting

An influenza pandemic exercise in a major urban setting, Part I: Hospital health systems lessons learned and implications for future planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-307
Author(s):  
Wendy H. Lyons, RN, MSL ◽  
Frederick M. Burkle Jr, MD, MPH, DTM, FAAP, FACEP ◽  
Deborah L. Roepke, MPA ◽  
James E. Bertz, MD, DDS, FACS
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Healthcare Leadership ◽  
Emergency Operations Center ◽  
Health Related

A 2007 pandemic exercise in Maricopa County, Arizona, the 5th largest urban population in the United States, revealed major vulnerabilities in planning, response, resource utilization, and the decision-making process, which would be common to any large urban setting where multiple independent organizations exist and have not yet coordinated or shared their plans. Communication challenges are both prevalent and magnified in large urban settings. There must be tough, broad-based decision making by healthcare leadership with guidance and processes at every level to assure compliance to the primary goals of pandemic flu plans necessary to control the transmission rate of the disease. A unifying decision-making element such as a Health-related Emergency Operations Center is critical for the coordination, which serves all urban health systems. Education and training in pre-event protocols for triage management is crucial at every level where resources will be scant. This is especially true in admissions to intensive care units and priorities for ventilator use.

scholarly journals Connecting with Community and Facilitating Learning through the Little Rock Congregations Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-43
Author(s):  
Rebecca Glazier ◽  
Gerald Driskill ◽  
Kirk Leach
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Little Rock ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Faith Based Organizations ◽  
The University

Places of worship play important roles as anchor institutions that promote community engagement and motivate political activity. Universities, particularly in urban settings, can also serve as anchor institutions that connect communities. Yet, there is often a gulf between the two, to the detriment of the broader community. In this article, we present the Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS) as an approach to community engagement with faith-based organizations in an urban setting. This research project, based at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, involves an interdisciplinary team focused on understanding and improving the community engagement of congregations in the city of Little Rock since 2012. We present qualitative and quantitative data to illustrate the benefits of our approach, including research results returned to community organizations, greater visibility of the university in the community, student involvement in research and with faith-based organizations, and substantive findings that inform the greater body of knowledge and our own community. Through more than eight years of community-based work on the LRCS we provide six key lessons learned for researchers and students building relationships with religious leaders that can help bridge the gulf between these two key community institutions.

Pandemics and biodiversity: applying lessons learned to conservation in the post-COVID-19 era

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiajia Liu ◽  
Zhijun Ma ◽  
Shilu Zheng ◽  
Xingfeng Si ◽  
Marc Cadotte
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Wild Species ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Wildlife Trade ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Socioeconomic Changes ◽  
Effective Conservation ◽  
Insight Into

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly restricted human activities, and wild species are seemingly thriving in human-dominated areas. However, we have little understanding of the consequences for biodiversity from governmental policies and socioeconomic changes in response to COVID-19, and their conservation significance. Understanding these impacts is a priority for setting effective conservation management in a post-COVID-19 world. Here, we identify putative positive and negative effects of the pandemic on biodiversity. We also highlight consequences that need to be mitigated and others that provided insight into policies to promote biodiversity conservation. To avoid further pandemics and protect human health, local governments should consider biodiversity conservation as a core value and strengthen conservation efforts. In addition, global wildlife trade ban and maintenance of the wildlife’s intact habitats are urgently required.

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