ITC/USA 2006 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Second Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 23-26, 2006 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / The IRIG 106 Chapter 10 Standard has evolved significantly since its inception. This paper covers the background, technology, status, users, supporting vendors and future considerations such as ground-based recording and archiving. Also covered are samples of toolsets available for troubleshooting, validation, data processing and display of Chapter 10 data

ITC/USA 2006 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Second Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 23-26, 2006 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / The transition of PCM recording from analog to digital recorders was completed at many test ranges more than a decade ago as marked by delivery of data on S-VHS tape, CD-ROM, DVD, ZIP disc, JAZ disc, 8mm tape and DLT tape for low rate data and D-1 cassettes for high rate data. Data then quickly began distribution via the internet and other networks. Analog recorders have remained a necessary legacy for the long transition to convert from analog to digital (PCM) data transmission from the test vehicles. However, the new digital recorder capabilities have removed this requirement to convert the transmissions from the test vehicle. Analog signal and predetection recording on digital recorders has been successfully demonstrated at costs below the existing analog recorders. Application of new techniques in a methodical transition program to the new digital recorders has proven the many benefits of recording wider bandwidths with excellent repeatability. Repeatability issues are primarily in the very low error sources of the processing system because the major analog error sources of the analog tape recorders, analog time code readers, analog demodulators, etc have been greatly reduced. This paper provides test results of recording higher signal rates and bandwidths of the new programs and describes the techniques and implementation through procedures of the Western Range transition from analog to digital recorders. Surprising results show predetection and analog signal recording costs are nearly the same as PCM recording costs due to the price of deliverable media with respect to mission recording requirements.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1995 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / Magnetic tape is the primary medium used to capture and store unprocessed data from remote sensing satellites. Recent advances in digital cassette recording technology have resulted in the introduction of a range of data recorders which are equally at home working alongside conventional recorders or as part of more advanced data capture strategies. This paper shows how users are taking advantage of the convenience, economy and efficiency of this new generation of cassette-based equipment in a range of practical applications.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / A need has been identified in the Test and Evaluation (T&E) and tactical aircraft communities for a ruggedized high-speed instrumentation data recorder to complement the ever-increasing number of high frame-rate digital cameras and sensors. High-speed digital camera manufacturers are entering this market in order to provide adequate recording capability for their own cameras. This paper discusses a Solid-State Data Recorder (SSDR) for use in Imaging and High-Speed Sensor Data Aquisition applications. The SSDR is capable of a 10.4 Gb/sec sustained, 16Gb/sec burst, input data rate via a proprietary 32-channel-by-10-bit generic high-speed parallel interface, a massively-parallel 256-bit bus architecture, and unique memory packaging design. A 32-bit PCIbus control/archive and dedicated DCRsi™ interface are also employed, allowing data archiving to standard high-speed interfaces (SCSI, Fiber-Channel, USB, etc.) and DCRsi™-compatible tape recorders.

In many different insect species the highly conserved neuropil regions known as the central complex or central body complex have been shown to be important in behaviours such as locomotion, visual memory and courtship conditioning. The aim of this project is to generate accurate quantitative neuroanatomy of the central complex in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Much of the authoritative neuroanatomy of the fruit fly from past literature has been derived using Golgi stains, and in important cases these data are available only from 2D camera lucida drawings of the neurons and linguistic descriptions of connectivity. These cannot easily be mapped onto 3D template brains or compared directly to our own data. Using GAL4 driver and reporter constructs, some of the findings within these studies could be visualized using immunohistochemistry and confocal microscopy. A range of GAL4 driver lines were selected that particularly had prominent expression in the fan-shaped body. Images of brains from these lines were archived using a web-based 3D image stack archive developed for the sharing and backup of large confocal stacks. This is also the platform which we use to publish the data, so that other researchers can reuse this catalogue and compare their results directly. Each brain was annotated using desktop-based tools for labelling neuropil regions, locating landmarks in image stacks and tracing fine neuronal processes both manually and automatically. The development of the tracing and landmark annotation tools is described, and all of the tools used in this work are available as free software. In order to compare and aggregate these data, which are from many different brains, it is necessary to register each image stack onto some standard template brain. Although this is a well-studied problem in medical imaging, these high resolution scans of the central fly brain are unusual in a number of respects. The relative effectiveness of various methods currently available were tested on this data set. The best registrations were produced by a method that generates free-form deformations based on B-splines (the Computational Morphometry Toolkit), but for much faster registrations, the thin plate spline method based on manual landmarks may be sufficient. The annotated and registered data allows us to produce central complex template images and also files that accurately represent the possible central complex connectivity apparent in these images. One interesting result to arise from these efforts was evidence for a possible connection between the inferior region of the fan-shaped body and the beta lobe of the mushroom body which had previously been missed in these GAL4 lines. In addition, we can identify several connections which appear to be similar to those described in [Hanesch et al., 1989], the canonical paper on the architecture of the Drosophila melanogaster central complex, and describe for the first time their variation statistically. This registered data was also used to suggest a method for classifying layers of expression within the fan-shaped body.

General-purpose multi-access computing systems with files stored on random-access devices require that these files be protected. If the total on-line storage is inadequate there is a need for wellorganized off-line storage. This thesis discusses the management problems involved in handling backup and archive copies of files. In Part I we review what a number of systems, including the Edinburgh Multi-Access System (EMAS), have achieved. We also consider the influences of hardware and other forms of computing system. In Part II we return to EMAS and propose a design and an implementation to provide comprehensive facilities, for backup copies of files and recovery of them, and also for archive storage.

A grande demanda por computação de alto desempenho culminou na construção de ambientes de execução de larga escala como as Grades Computacionais. Não diferente de outras plataformas de execução, seus usuários precisam obter os dados de entrada para suas aplicações e muitas vezes precisam armazenar os resultados por elas gerados. Apesar de o termo Grade ter surgido de uma metáfora onde os recursos computacionais estão tão facilmente acessíveis como os da rede elétrica, as ferramentas para gerenciamento de dados e de recursos de armazenamento disponíveis estão muito aquém do necessário para concretizar essa idéia. A imaturidade desses serviços se torna crítica para aplicações científicas que necessitam processar grandes volumes de dados. Nesses casos, utiliza-se apenas os recursos de alto desempenho e assegura-se confiabilidade, disponibilidade e segurança para os dados através de presença humana. Este trabalho apresenta o JavaRMS, um sistema de gerência de dados para Grades. Ao empregar um modelo par-a-par, consegue-se agregar os recursos menos capacitados disponíveis no ambiente de Grade, diminuindo-se assim o custo da solução. O sistema utiliza a técnica de nodos virtuais para lidar com a grande heterogeneidade de recursos, distribuindo os dados de acordo com o espaço de armazenamento fornecido. Empregase fragmentação para viabilizar o uso dos recursos menos capacitados e para melhorar o desempenho das operações que envolvem a transferência de arquivos. Utiliza-se replicação para prover persistência aos dados e para melhorar sua disponibilidade. JavaRMS lida ainda com a dinamicidade e a instabilidade dos recursos através de um modelo de estados, de forma a diminuir o impacto das operações de manutenção. A arquitetura contempla também serviços para gerenciamento de usuários e protege os recursos contra fraudes através de um sistema de cotas. Todas as operações foram projetadas para serem seguras. Por fim, disponibiliza-se toda a infra-estrutura necessária para que serviços de busca e ferramentas de interação com o usuário sejam futuramente fornecidos. Os experimentos realizados com o protótipo do JavaRMS comprovam que usar um modelo par-a-par para organizar os recursos e localizar os dados resulta em boa escalabilidade. Já a técnica de nodos virtuais se mostrou eficiente para distribuir de forma balanceada os dados entre as máquinas, de acordo com a capacidade de armazenamento oferecida. Através de testes com a principal operação que envolve a transferência de arquivos, comprovou-se que o modelo é capaz de melhorar significativamente o desempenho de aplicações que necessitam processar grandes volumes de dados. / Large scale execution environments such as Grids emerged to meet high-performance computing demands. Like in other execution platforms, its users need to get input data to their applications and to store their results. Although the Grid term is a metaphor where computing resources are so easily accessible as those from the eletric grid, its data and resource management tools are not sufficiently mature to make this idea a reality. They usually target high-performance resources, where data reliability, availability and security is assured through human presence. It turns to be critical when scientific applications need to process huge amounts of data. This work presents JavaRMS, a Grid data management system. By using a peer-topeer model, it aggregates low capacity resources to reduce storage costs. Resource heterogeneity is dealt with the virtual node technique, where peers receive data proportionally to their provided storage space. It applies fragmentation to make feasible the usage of low capacity resources and to improve file transfer operations performance. Also, the system achieves data persistence and availability through replication. In order to decrease the impact of maintenance operations, JavaRMS deals with resource dinamicity and instability with a state model. The architecture also contains user management services and protects resources through a quota system. All operations are designed to be secure. Finally, it provides the necessary infrastructure for further deployment of search services and user interactive tools. Experiments with the JavaRMS prototype showed that using a peer-to-peer model for resource organization and data location results in good scalability. Also, the virtual node technique showed to be efficient to provide heterogeneity-aware data distribution. Tests with the main file transfer operation proved the model can significantly improve data-intensive applications performance.

This study theorizes the origins and history of the professional female playwright and director from the Restoration period to the present day through the stage history of Behn's most popular play, The Rover. Part one is comprised of two chapters: the first in this section argues the importance of appreciating Behn's proto-directorial function in the Restoration theatre and her significance to the history of feminism and women in professional theatre; the second chapter in this section examines the implications of casting practices and venue changes to eighteenth-century revivals of Behn's canon with a particular eye towards what a contemporary director can glean from 18th century revivals. Part II draws on archival research and personal interviews with directors, actors, and dramaturges to examine the historical significance of two particular twentieth-century, woman-directed revivals of The Rover: the 1989 revival at the Goodman directed by Kyle Donnelly and the 1994 revival at the Guthrie directed by Joanne Akalaitis. This study argues the synergistic impact at the time of woman-directed revivals of the most popular play by the first professional female playwright to the emergence of the professional woman director in America in the 1980s and 1990s. Part III consists of three chapters that examine woman-directed revivals of The Rover against the backdrop of theatre practice and sexual politics in the 2000s: one chapter analyzes cross-gender revivals of The Rover by Queen's Company in Brooklyn, NY (2001) and Woman's Will in San Francisco (2003); the next chapter examines a 2011 site-specific, panoramic production of The Rover at the World Financial Center directed by Karin Coonrod for New York Classical Theatre; the final chapter in this section analyzes a 2013 gender parodic production that I directed for Thinking Cap Theatre in Fort Lauderdale. This study argues for the importance of contemporary archiving and revival activism to historicizing the concept of the glass curtain and the gender parity movement in professional theatre and to improving the rate of employment of female directors and playwrights.

This thesis aims to examine the issues involved in utilising digital images and assess whether image processing techniques can be used as a cost-effective method of reconstructing the image found in a deteriorated cellulose acetate negative. Negatives affected by the vinegar syndrome are found in large numbers within Australian institutions. This was confirmed by a survey (using a questionnaire) undertaken at the National Library of Australia in 2000. The survey also found that although these collections are large, and hence the level of deterioration variable, little could be done to restore any of the negatives once deterioration had begun. Storing negatives at low temperature and low relative humidity slows down the breakdown of cellulose acetate; however, it cannot reverse the process once it has commenced. Although removing the gelatine pellicular from the deteriorated cellulose acetate support (making the image easier to view) a possible method of restoration, this becomes unfeasible when dealing with a large collection. As a result, how to manage cellulose acetate negatives once they have deteriorated becomes problematic. Image-processing techniques used to digitally restore these negatives were examined via a series of case studies. These examinations were undertaken using two software packages-the Image Processing Tool kit (IPTK) and OPTIMAS. Deteriorated cellulose acetate negatives were scanned, then a number of program filters were applied to the digital image to determine whether disfiguring elements (referred to as channelling elements) resulting from the deteriorated support could be digitally removed. IPTK and OPTIMAS were not completely successful in removing the deteriorated elements from the digital version. The results highlighted that a number of issues relating to the use of digital technology needed to be addressed. These issues included knowledge of basic technical terms, an understanding of digital language, and how to include the use of digital technology into a long-term strategy for archiving a digitised collection. This thesis showed that issues relating to utilising digital systems could be addressed by implementing a preservation management plan. A preservation management plan can be used to incorporate the goals of digitising, the long-term issues of retaining digital files, ongoing access relating to the digital file, hardware and software, and the importance of having the relevant expertise when undertaking such a project. Due to the limitations of the printed hardcopy displaying features in a number of the images (figures) outlined in this thesis, a compact disk (CD) has been included with this submission and can be found at the end of this document.

Elektronisches Publizieren über Open Archives hilft nicht nur dabei, unkompliziert weltweit zu veröffentlichen, sondern die Archive halten einen barrierefreien Zugriff auf solche Dokumente vor. Das Archiv MONARCH der TU Chemnitz, betreut von Universitätsbibliothek (UB) und Universitätsrechenzentrum (URZ), war das erste Archiv dieser Art in Deutschland und ist heute noch eines der führenden hinsichtlich Qualität und Zuverlässigkeit. Der Vortrag entstand innerhalb einer Informationsveranstaltung „Elektronisches Publizieren an der TU Chemnitz – 10 Jahre MONARCH“, die zur Information über und Werbung für das Publizieren von UB und URZ organisiert wurde. Die Vorteile der Archive werden von zwei Seiten aus betrachtet, vom Nutzen für den Autor und vom Nutzen für diejenigen, die im Internet nach wissenschaftlichen Volltexten recherchieren. Mittels Self-Archiving können vom Autor z.B. Diplomarbeiten, Master- und Bachelorarbeiten, Dissertationen und Habilitationen, Tagungsmaterialien u.v.a.m. abgelegt werden. Die URLs sind dauerhaft und damit zitierfähig. Die Archivierung und der Zugang zu den Dokumenten sind kostenfrei, gefunden werden sie z.B. über Bibliothekskataloge, Metasuchen in Archiven und über Suchmaschinen. / Electronic publishing over Open Archives does not help only to publish uncomplicatedly world-wide but reproach barrier-free access to such documents archives. The Archive „MONARCH“ from Technical University Chemnitz, cared for from University Library and Data processing Center of the University, was the first archive of this kind in Germany and is today still one of the best regarding quality and reliability. The lecture developed within an information meeting "Electronic publishing in Technical University Chemnitz - 10 years MONARCH", which were organized for information over and advertisement for publishing in electronic form. The advantages of archives are regarded by two sides, by the benefits for the author and by the use for searching after scientific full texts in the Internet. The author is able to archive himself for instance theses (diploma), Master- and Bachelor-works, theses, conference materials etc. The URL of every document is durable and quotable. Archiving and the entrance to the documents are free, to be found it e.g. over library catalogs, metasearches in archives and over search machines.