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Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 670130, 19 pages
Review Article
Singlet Generation from Triplet Excitons in Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
Organic Electroactive Materials Research Group, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Received 22 August 2012; Accepted 4 October 2012
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There is an ever-increasing demand on mobile wireless operators to provide voice and high-speed data services. At the same time, these operators want to support more users per basestation to reduce overall network costs and make the services affordable to subscribers. As a result, wireless systems that enable higher data rates and higher capacities are a pressing need.
Interference Limited Systems
Unfortunately, because the available broadcast spectrum is limited, attempts to increase traffic within a fixed bandwidth create more interference in the system and degrade the signal quality.
In particular, when omni-directional antennas (see Figure 1) are used at the basestation, the transmission/reception of each user's signal becomes a source of interference to other users located in the same cell, making the overall system interference limited. An effective way to reduce this type of interference is to split up the cell into multiple sectors and use sectorized antennas, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Non-Smart Antennas System
Smart Antenna Technology—Beamforming
Smart antenna technology offers a significantly improved solution to reduce interference levels and improve the system capacity. With this technology, each user's signal is transmitted and received by the basestation only in the direction of that particular user. This drastically reduces the overall interference in the system. A smart antenna system, as shown in Figure 2, consists of an array of antennas that together direct different transmission/reception beams toward each user in the system. This method of transmission and reception is called beamforming and is made possible through smart (advanced) signal processing at the baseband.
Figure 2. Smart Antenna System—Beamforming
In beamforming, each user's signal is multiplied with complex weights that adjust the magnitude and phase of the signal to and from each antenna. This causes the output from the array of antennas to form a transmit/receive beam in the desired direction and minimizes the output in other directions.
Switched and Adaptive Beamforming
If the complex weights are selected from a library of weights that form beams in specific, predetermined directions, the process is called switched beamforming. Here, the basestation basically switches between the different beams based on the received signal strength measurements. On the other hand, if the weights are computed and adaptively updated in real time, the process is called adaptive beamforming. Through adaptive beamforming, the basestation can form narrower beams towards the desired user and nulls towards interfering users, considerably improving the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio.
Altera Adaptive Beamforming Implementation
The high-performance digital signal processing (DSP) blocks, embedded Nios® II processors, and logic elements (LEs) of Altera's Stratix® series FPGAs make them ideal for adaptive beamforming applications. In addition, the inclusion of the dual-core ARM® CortexTM-A9 MPCoreTM processor with the NEON acceleration unit can be used for beamforming adaptations. This section describes the Altera implementation of a Rake-Beamformer (also known as two-dimensional Rake) structure that performs joint space-time processing. As illustrated in Figure 3, the signal from each receive antenna is first down converted to baseband, processed by the matched filter-multipath estimator, and accordingly assigned to different Rake fingers.
Figure 3. Adaptive Beamforming with Altera's Stratix Series FPGAs
- DDC: digital down converter
- MRC: maximal ratio combining
- CORDIC: coordinate rotation digital computer
- QRD: QR decomposition
The beamforming unit on each Rake finger then calculates the corresponding beamformer weights and channel estimate using the pilot symbols that have been transmitted through the dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH). The QRD-based recursive least squares (RLS) algorithm is selected as the weight update algorithm for its fast convergence and good numerical properties. The updated beamformer weights are then used for multiplication with the data that has been transmitted through the dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH). Maximal ratio combining (MRC) of the signals from all fingers is then performed to yield the final soft estimate of the DPDCH data.
The beamforming unit implementation on each Rake finger is further elaborated below.
DSP Blocks for Complex Weight Multiplication
The application of complex weights to the signals from different antennas involves complex multiplications that map well onto the embedded DSP blocks available in Stratix series FPGAs. Each DSP block has a number of multipliers, followed by adder/subtractor/accumulators, in addition to registers for pipelining. With these features, Stratix series FPGAs can efficiently implement complex multiplications and reduce the amount of overall logic and routing required in beamforming designs.
CORDIC-Based QR Decomposition
The QRD-RLS weights update algorithm involves decomposing the input signal matrix Y into QR, where Q is a unitary matrix and R is an upper triangular matrix. This is achieved using a triangular systolic array of CORDIC blocks, as shown in Figure 4. Each CORDIC block operates in either vectoring or rotating modes and performs a series of micro rotations through simple shift and add/subtract operations and can run at speeds of 300 MHz.
Figure 4. Triangular Systolic Array Example for CORDIC-Based QRD-RLS
The R matrix and u vector (transformed reference signal vector d) are recursively updated for every new row of inputs entering the triangular array. The triangular systolic array can be further mapped into a linear array with reduced number of time-shared CORDIC blocks—as illustrated in Figure 4—providing a tradeoff between resource consumption and throughput.
Back Substitution for Weights Using Nios II and ARM Processors
The final beamformer weights vector w is related to the R and u outputs of the triangular array as Rw=u. Because R is an upper triangular matrix, w can be solved using a procedure called back substitution that can be implemented in software on the flexible embedded Nios II processor or on a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor. The Nios II soft processor can also utilize custom instructions for hardware acceleration of program code. For an eight antenna system, the beamformer weights for a Rake finger can be solved via back substitution in approximately 0.2 ms using the Nios II processor operating at 100 MHz. The computation time can be lowered to 3 µs by implementing the back substitution on a hardware peripheral controlled by the Nios II processor. Moreover, the Nios II processor offers a flexible platform to implement other adaptive weight update algorithms such as least mean squares (LMS) and normalized LMS. The ARM Cortex-A9 processor subsystem includes a NEONTM media processing engine for floating point operations and single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) processing.
The Altera Advantage for Beamforming
Processing Speed
Smart antenna technology requires high processing bandwidth, with computational speeds approaching several billion multiply and accumulate (MAC) operations per second. Such computationally demanding applications quickly exhaust the processing capabilities of digital signal processors. Altera FPGAs, with enhanced DSP blocks and TriMatrix memory, provide throughputs in excess of 50 GMACs, offering a high-performance platform for beamforming applications.
There are a number of beamforming architectures and adaptive algorithms that provide good performance under different scenarios such as transmit-receive adaptive beamforming and transmit-receive switched beamforming. With embedded processors and easy-to-use development tools such as DSP Builder and the Qsys system integration tool. Altera® FPGAs offer a high degree of flexibility in implementing various adaptive signal processing algorithms.
Lower Risk
The standards for next-generation networks are continuously evolving, and this creates an element of risk for beamforming ASIC implementation. Transmit beamforming, for example, utilizes the feedback from the mobile terminals. The number of bits provided for feedback in the standards can determine the beamforming algorithm that is used at the basestation. Moreover, future basestations are likely to support transmit diversity including space-time coding and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology. Because Altera FPGAs are remotely upgradeable, they reduce the risk involved with designing for evolving industry standards while providing the option for the gradual deployment of additional transmit diversity schemes.


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- 1 large egg white
- cup(s) cornmeal
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) coarsely ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 2 medium (6 ounces each) green tomatoes, cut into 4 slices apiece
- 2 medium (8 ounces each) ripe red tomatoes, cut into 4 slices apiece
- 3 tablespoon(s) olive oil
- 1 undefined lemon
- cup(s) light mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoon(s) snipped fresh chives
- In pie plate, with fork, beat egg white. On waxed paper, combine cornmeal and 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper. Use salt to sprinkle on green and red tomato slices. Dip green tomato slices in beaten egg white to coat, then dip into cornmeal mixture to coat both sides well. Place coated slices on waxed paper.
- In 12-inch skillet, heat half of oil on medium-high until hot. Add half of green tomato slices, and cook 4 to 5 minutes or until golden-brown on both sides and heated through, turning slices over once and turning heat down to medium if tomatoes brown too quickly. Transfer green tomatoes to plate. Repeat with remaining oil and green tomatoes.
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Jim Cramer: No Joy in Shortville
NEW YORK (Real Money) -- Hey, short sellers, how about some originality?
How could more than 20% of Joy Global (JOY) be sold short? Do you think we haven't all read the coal articles? Do you think that, somehow, that would be a big secret, a huge surprise that would be overlooked by the longs? Do you think that, after natural gas goes almost to $5, there wouldn't be more coal used? Did you forget that you can use electric shovels for tar sands work and that Canada is abuzz with tar sands work? Did you not see that 16 out of 23 analysts have Holds or Sells on it for precisely the reasons that you are short, so they aren't going to downgrade on a bad number? Didn't you think that someone would break ranks, like Bank of America Merrill did, and go Hold to Buy? Could you really be that devoid of imagination?
I was astounded yesterday to see how short people were in this high-quality machinery company that has secular challenges, for sure, but is in a global industry where the rest of the world can't afford to be as anti-coal as we can. They don't have cheap natural gas. They are de-commissioning nuclear plants left and right because of Fukushima. And wind, as much as it is loved, is, even on its best days, not a factor almost anywhere in the world. Especially when it's cloudy or still out.
I point this mistaken short out because it is emblematic of so many shorts that I see. Thesis shorts, whether it be telco antenna stories that were all the rage not that long ago or housing-related businesses like Sherwin-Williams (SHW) and Whirlpool (WHR) or the Clorox (CLX), Kimberly-Clark (KMB) and Brown-Forman (BF.B) shorts, a troika I always hear overvaluation calls on, are just plain too obvious. Sure, housing has its ups and downs. But the consolidation in the housing related plays is palpably positive. There simply aren't enough high-dividend plays to go around, so what's the point of betting against two of the best packaged goods stories around? Liquor plays are too few and far between. They just don't work, other than a few points.
Or how about the shorts in the disk drive companies or semiconductor companies -- think Micron (MU) -- when there's no new capacity on the books. Or the short of Caterpillar (CAT) based on China after United Rentals (URI) tells you the U.S. has returned to earth-moving growth. Just because the media calls you brilliant doesn't make you brilliant. Yet, that's how I feel about those who have been blasting those stocks. And now, shorts, you have to look out for the more established software-as-a-service plays and legitimate biotechs. They all got gang-tackled after they had broken and the head-and-shoulders patterns were everywhere. Now, though, the percentage of stock short, coupled with the end of massive insider selling --at least for the moment -- has made stocks like FireEye (FEYE) and Zillow (Z) and even Workday (WDAY) and Concur (CNQR) difficult, as well as Biogen (BIIB), Celgene (CELG) and Gilead (GILD). They had been terrific free-fire zones, but now they are just valuation shorts, which are shorts of the worst kind.Select the service that is right for you!
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Plant and soil responses of an alpine steppe on the Tibetan Plateau to multi-level nitrogen addition
- Yongwen Liu,
- Xu-Ri,
- Xingliang Xu,
- Da Wei,
- Yinghong Wang,
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Although plant growth in alpine steppes on the Tibetan Plateau has been suggested to be sensitive to nitrogen (N) addition, the N limitation conditions of alpine steppes remain uncertain.
After 2 years of fertilization with NH4NO3 at six rates (0, 10, 20, 40, 80 and 160 kg N ha−1 yr−1), the responses of plant and soil parameters as well as N2O fluxes were measured.
At the vegetation level, N addition resulted in an increase in the aboveground N pool from 0.5 ± 0.1 g m−2 in the control plots to 1.9 ± 0.2 g m−2 in the plots at the highest N input rate. The aboveground C pool, biomass N concentration, foliar δ15N, soil NO3 −-N and N2O flux were also increased by N addition. However, as the N fertilization rate increased from 10 kg N ha−1 yr−1 to 160 kg N ha−1 yr−1, the N-use efficiency decreased from 12.3 ± 4.6 kg C kg N−1 to 1.6 ± 0.2 kg C kg N−1, and the N-uptake efficiency decreased from 43.2 ± 9.7 % to 9.1 ± 1.1 %. Biomass N:P ratios increased from 14.4 ± 2.6 in the control plots to 20.5 ± 0.8 in the plots with the highest N input rate. Biomass N:P ratios, N-uptake efficiency and N-use efficiency flattened out at 40 kg N ha−1 yr−1. Above this level, soil NO3 −-N began to accumulate. The seasonal average N2O flux of growing season nonlinearly increased with increased N fertilization rate and linearly increased with the weighted average foliar δ15N.
At the species level, N uptake responses to relative N availability were species-specific. Biomass N concentration of seven out of the eight non-legume species increased significantly with N fertilization rates, while Kobresia macrantha and the one legume species (Oxytropics glacialis) remained stable. Both the non-legume and the legume species showed significant 15N enrichment with increasing N fertilization rate. All non-legume species showed significant increased N:P ratios with increased N fertilization rate, but not the legume species.
Our findings suggest that the Tibetan alpine steppes might be N-saturated above a critical N load of 40 kg N ha−1 yr−1. For the entire Tibetan Plateau (ca. 2.57 million km2), a low N deposition rate (10 kg N ha−1 yr−1) could enhance plant growth, and stimulate aboveground N and C storage by at least 1.1 ± 0.3 Tg N yr−1 and 31.5 ± 11.8 Tg C yr−1, respectively. The non-legume species was N-limited, but the legume species was not limited by N.
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- Title
- Plant and soil responses of an alpine steppe on the Tibetan Plateau to multi-level nitrogen addition
- Journal
Plant and Soil
Volume 373, Issue 1-2 , pp 515-529
- Cover Date
- 2013-12-01
- 10.1007/s11104-013-1814-x
- Print ISSN
- Online ISSN
- 1573-5036
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- N:P stoichiometry
- N isotope fractionation
- N limitation
- N saturation
- N-use efficiency
- N-uptake efficiency
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Yongwen Liu (1) (2)
- Xu-Ri (1)
- Xingliang Xu (3)
- Da Wei (1) (2)
- Yinghong Wang (4)
- Yuesi Wang (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Building 3,Courtyard 16, Lin Cui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China
- 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 3. Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China
- 4. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


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Can Deweyan Pragmatist Aesthetics Provide a Robust Framework for the Philosophy for Children Programme?
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In this paper, I argue that Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics, and in particular, his concept of consummatory experience, should be engaged anew to rethink the merits of the Philosophy for Children (PFC) programme, which arose in the 1970s in the US as an innovative educational programme that aims to use philosophy to help school children (aged 6–18) improve their ability to become more conscious of and make judgments about the aspects of their experience that have ethical, aesthetic, political, logical, or even metaphysical meaning. Although an international success, the PFC programme has attracted many criticisms from a variety of directions. I claim that Deweyan concept of consummatory aesthetic experience is broad and flexible enough to provide a robust framework to make sense of the pedagogical horizon of PFC and therefore fruitfully engage the various critics of the movement coming from religious and social conservatives, educational psychologists, critical theorists, postmodernists/posthumanists, and professional philosophers themselves. The goal of this paper is to offer in a preliminary fashion the basic elements of Deweyan pragmatist aesthetics, which was principally elucidated in his Art as Experience, to defend PFC as a viable pedagogy.
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- Can Deweyan Pragmatist Aesthetics Provide a Robust Framework for the Philosophy for Children Programme?
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Studies in Philosophy and Education
Volume 32, Issue 4 , pp 361-377
- Cover Date
- 2013-07-01
- 10.1007/s11217-012-9332-5
- Print ISSN
- 0039-3746
- Online ISSN
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Philosophy for Children
- John Dewey
- Consummatory experience
- Deweyan pragmatist aesthetics
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- 1. TED University, Ziya Gökalp Caddesi No. 48, 06420, Kolej, Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey


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Instructor Conference
October 24–26, 2014
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List of Train-the-Trainer Classes
- Electric Vehicle Safety for First Responders
- Fire Department Medical First Responder
- Leadership, Accountability, Culture and Knowledge
- Traffic Incident Management
List of Conference Workshops
- Fire Dynamics in Structures: Ventilation, Flow Paths & Exterior Attack
- Presentation is Everything: Mastering the Instructor's Tools of the Trade
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Instructor Biographies
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The Missouri Emergency Services Instructor Conference is for those preparing and presenting training programs for emergency services personnel, and public fire education. Instructors and other supervisory personnel will find this conference valuable in planning for the training needs of their organizations. Whether you are just starting out or have been involved with training for many years, this conference will be of benefit to you.
Preconference Train-the-Trainer Programs
The Train-the-Trainer classes are reserved for Certified Instructors recognized by the Missouri Division of Fire Safety (If you are not affiliated with a Missouri Fire Department, this requirement can be waived). Participants will receive all of the curriculum and training that will enable you to deliver the selected classes to your own agency as a MU Fire and Rescue Training Institute Registered Program.*
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The registered course program provides an opportunity for state certified instructors to teach the MU Fire and Rescue Training Institute courses within their organization. Certified fire service instructors may qualify to teach courses under the registered program by successfully completing an MU Fire and Rescue Training Institute's Train-the-Trainer course. Qualified instructors may then register a course they teach within their own organization with the Institute.
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- Certified instructors must successfully complete the MU FRTI Train-the Trainer for the registered course.
- The course must be taught as designed using instructor and student materials and teaching aids obtained from MU FRTI.
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- Tests, if applicable, must be administered under MU FRTI guidelines.
- MU FRTI course evaluations must be completed by each student.
Continuing Education Credit
The Missouri Division of Fire Safety has approved 8 hours continuing education credits for Train-the-Trainer courses and 12 hours for the weekend conference.
General Session
A general session will kick-off the conference on Saturday morning, October 25th at 8:00 a.m. The Instructor of the year award will be presented to an outstanding MU FRTI Adjunct Instructor. In addition, you will hear program updates from MU FRTI and the Missouri Division of Fire Safety, as well as keynote presentations of interest to instructors.
Registration Fees
Participants can choose to attend the Preconference Train-the-Trainer Classes and/or the weekend Conference Workshop. All student materials, breakfast and lunch are provided with registration for each full day of the conference.
$150 per event.
$300 for Friday through Sunday.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received before October 3, 2014 are fully refundable. No refunds will be made after that date. All cancellations must be made in writing.
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The Country Club Hotel and Spa at the Lake of the Ozarks will be the host location for the Instructor Conference. A special lodging rate will be available to participants when you mention you are attending the MU FRTI Instructor Conference.
$85 – Deluxe Room | Two Queen or one King
$85 – Suites | King with sofa sleeper
$145 – Villa | Two bedroom, two bath with full kitchen
$215 – Villa | Three bedroom, two bath with full kitchen
To make reservations contact the Country Club at 800-964-6698 or 573-964-2200, or online at www.countryclubhotel.com, enter Promo/Group Code MU FRTI. Reservations are subject to availability.
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Friday, October 24
- 6:30 a.m. - Breakfast Buffet
- Registration check-in
- 8:00 a.m. - Train-the-Trainer classes begin
- Noon - Lunch
- 1:00 p.m. - Train-the-Trainer classes resume
- 5:00 p.m. - Train-the-Trainer classes conclude
Saturday, October 25
- 6:30 a.m. - Breakfast Buffet
- Registration check-in
- 8:00 a.m. - General Session
- Looking Back to Look Forward: We are the Shepherds of the Future of Public Safety, Chuck Baird
- Fire Dynamics: From Research to Reality, Daniel Madrzykowski
- Division of Fire Safety Update
- MU FRTI Update
- Instructor Awards
Sunday, October 26
- 6:30 a.m. - Breakfast Buffet
- Registration check-in
- 8:00 a.m. - Workshops Resume
- Noon - Workshops conclude
Preconference Train-the-Trainer Classes
Friday, October 24
Electric Vehicle Safety for First Responders – Train-the-Trainer
Instructor:Jason Emery, NFPA Consultant,
Prerequisites: Firefighter I and II and experience in
Vehicle Extrication principles and practice |
CEU:DFS 8-Instructor |
The National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Electric Vehicle Safety Training Project is providing firefighters and first responders with the information and materials necessary to respond to emergency situations involving electric vehicles. This training will help first responders identify electric vehicles and respond to common hazards. Topics include: myths versus reality with regard to hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) and electric vehicle safety concerns (EV); basic electric concepts and hazards; vehicle systems and safety features; initial response procedures; and, emergency operations. The course provides for student interaction and scenarios to provide expand learning principles established in the course.
Fire Department Medical First Responder – Train-the-Trainer
Instructor:Dean Martin, Specialist,
Prerequisites: Licensed Emergency Medical Technician
(EMT) level or greater |
CEU:DFS 8-Instructor |
Fire Department Medical First Responder is a 32-hour program based on the U.S. Department of Transportation's First Responder: National Standard Curriculum. Topics include airway care and suctioning, patient assessment, bleeding control, stabilization of spinal and extremities injury, trauma emergencies, use of a limited medical care equipment and assisting other EMS providers. This course can also be used to meet the emergency medical training requirements for Firefighter I certification from the Missouri Division of Fire Safety.
This train-the-trainer will prepare instructors to teach the skills stations required in this course plus provide a quick overview of the lesson plan and methodology used. This course is updated to the 9th Edition, Emergency Medical Responder: First on the Scene text published by Brady- Prentice Hall.
Leadership, Accountability, Culture and Knowledge (LACK) – Train-the-Trainer
Instructor:Mike Novak, Battalion Chief, |
CEU:DFS 8-Instructor |
Description:Is your department on the path to a LODD? This compelling presentation by the National Fallen Firefighter Foundations examines the root causes of LODD's and the role of Leadership, Accountability, Culture and Knowledge as it influences the end result. Many fire departments across the United States "LACK the Right Stuff " to prevent them from being on a path to a line of duty death, with Leadership, Accountability, Culture and Knowledge being the elements that need to be addressed and managed in those environments. Through education and training, those departments can improve their survivability by understanding the root causes of firefighter fatalities and tackling these four elements with special emphasis on understanding fire service culture. Note: This class is being presented in partnership with the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation (NFFF). Participants will be required to complete an application for Instructor status with the NFFF during the class. |
Traffic Incident Management – Train-the-Trainer
Instructor:Roy Sims, Assistant Chief,
CEU:DFS 8-Instructor |
Description:Traffic incidents, including crashes, disabled vehicles and debris on the road create unsafe driving conditions; put motorists and responder lives at risk; and account for approximately 25 percent of all traffic delays. The Traffic Incident Management (TIM) training program focuses on a response effort that protects motorists and responders while minimizing the impact on traffic flow. TIM efforts include detecting, verifying and responding to incidents; clearing the incident scene; and restoring traffic flow. Using a multiple discipline perspective, first responders learn how to operate more efficiently and collectively. The training covers many topics including recommended TIM procedure. Responders also learn about human behavior in highway safety to help prevent additional injuries or delays that may result from secondary crashes occurring near the initial crash site. Note: This course was developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and made available through a cooperative agreement with the National Fire Academy. |
Conference Workshops
Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, October 26
Fire Dynamics in Structures: Ventilation, Flow Paths & Exterior Attack
Instructor:Daniel Madrzykowski, Fire Protection Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
CEU:DFS 4-Instructor |
Fire behavior or fire dynamics is based on the fundamental relationship between fuel, oxygen and heat, i.e. the fire triangle. The type of fuel, the geometry of the fuel, building construction and ventilation can have a significant effect on the speed of fire growth and spread. Changes in construction materials, fuel loads, and construction methods will be discussed in terms of their impact on the fire fighter's working environment. A review of heat transfer and fire chemistry basics will be given to provide a common understanding among attendees.
Over the past several decades, fire fighters have been using more and more technology to enable them to work in a structure fire safely. In many cases, technology has been implemented on the fire ground without sufficient training in the capabilities and limitations of technology, PPE would be one example. Recent changes to the NFPA standard for Self Contained Breathing Apparatus, a new Standard for Training with Thermal Imagers, and development of a new standard for thermal exposures to mobile radios and their components will be discussed in terms of the fire fighters' working environment.
The focus of the presentation will be linking an understanding of fire dynamics to the fire ground. For example, ventilating the structure may provide cooling by removing heat. But ventilating a "fuel rich" room may cause a flashover, by allowing fresh air into the structure. It is important to remember that smoke is fuel. Ventilation does not always equal cooling. Understanding the impact of ventilation and flow paths will lead to improved tactical decisions. Another ventilation consideration is wind. Wind driven conditions can lead to flashovers or intensify the flashover conditions and spread the flames throughout a flow path in the structure. Exterior hose stream use, in recent years, has been considered a defensive tactic. Use of an exterior hose stream as an offensive tactic will be examined in terms of fire dynamics.
This workshop will use a combination of videos and data to characterize the thermal environment that firefighters may be exposed to. Attendees will get an inside view of the fire progression through structures to compare with what they may see on the outside during size-up. Fire incidents and fire ground line of duty death incidents will be discussed with the attendees to demonstrate the interaction of fire dynamics and fire ground tactics. Throughout the presentation, current firefighting practices will be examined based on what the research data and line of duty deaths have shown. This presentation is intended to provide insight to complement the fire behavior training that occurs in the training tower or the experience gained on the fire ground.
Presentation is Everything: Mastering the Instructor's Tools of the Trade
Instructor:Chuck Baird, Captain,
Cobb County (GA) |
CEU:DFS 4-Instructor |
This workshop provides information and hands-on experience for the new and veteran instructor and will kick-off with a presentation on the most important piece of 'equipment' in the learning environment, the mind of the student and the instructor. Three skills enhancement sessions will follow demonstrating skills an instructor needs to improve and deliver instruction in a learning environment. The participant will be guided through the neuroscience of learning as it applies to the delivery of information and will have the opportunity to improve their instructor skills along with the use of instructional tools to deliver classes that engage students and lead to life-long learning. The format provides for participants to walk away with an experience in a
The Instructor's Technology Toolbox
Instructor:Michael D. Finney, Elightenment Learning |
Description:Many instructors still struggle with leveraging technology to assist them in training. We all deal with issues from scheduling to presentations. However we now live in a society where the tools you need to have an effective training program are widely available (many for free). The underlying theme of this class will be "working smarter, not harder". We will review resources that you can implement immediately into your training program to improve your classroom time, practical skills evolutions, and administrative duties to allow you to focus on what is important... teaching. |
Instructor Biographies
Chuck Baird
Chuck Baird currently serves as a Captain with Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services in the Metro Atlanta area. He has been instructing at the department and college levels since 1994 in Fire and EMS programs. He is known for making the complex understandable as well as keeping the classroom active and entertaining. He and his wife have three children and have been married for 28 years. He has served in the response, administration, and training divisions over the years, but training has been his passion since serving a year in public fire and life safety many years ago. He is a graduate of the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Officer program and has a Masters Degree in Executive Fire Service Leadership.
Michael D Finney
Michael D. Finney is a 30-year veteran of the fire service, having served at all ranks from Firefighter to Chief. He currently serves as the Founder for Elightenment Learning (an elearning company). Chief Executive Officer for the OPS Institute (www.openpublicsafetyinstitute.org.) He also serves as faculty for American Military University, Grand Canyon University, Fairleigh-Dickinson University, and Ivy Bridge College. He previously served as the Director of Public Safety Services for Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development and the Fire Chief for the Village of Glendale, Ohio. Michael has been honored to serve with such organizations as the International Fire Service Training Association/ Fire Protection Publications and with the South Carolina Fire Academy. He is also an adjunct instructor with the National Fire Academy for the "Fire Service Course Design" program. He has authored/edited several books and numerous magazine publications in leadership and training for the fire service. He has also performed extensive research in issues related to fire service training. Michael holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of South Carolina, a Masters of Divinity from Columbia International University, and is currently completing a Doctorate in Education from Oklahoma State University and is listed in the 2003 edition of Who's Who in America and in the 2007 edition of Who's Who of Emerging Leaders..
Daniel Madrzykowski
Dan has a Masters in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland. He has led several research efforts with a focus on improving fire fighter safety. Dan has worked to with many fire organizations to transfer research results into practice. In addition, he has assisted in the development of several classes for the National Fire Academy. Dan currently serves as a President-elect of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. He is a member of the NFPA Fire Service Training Technical Committee. Dan is also a member of the ISFSI and he was named their Instructor of the Year in 2009. In 2012, Dan was awarded the rank of Honorary Battalion Chief with the FDNY and received the Granito Excellence in Fire Leadership Award. Last year Dan was invited to the White House in honor of receiving a Citizens Service Award.
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The court has promulgated a standard-form combined plan and disclosure statement for use by individual chapter 11 debtors (the Form Plan). The Form Plan may be used in all four divisions of the Northern District of California. Use of the Form Plan is not mandatory, but the judges of the Northern District encourage its use by experienced chapter 11 attorneys only.
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