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Stokes, John. "‘Lion Griefs’: the Wild Animal Act as Theatre." New Theatre Quarterly 20, no. 2 (April 21, 2004): 138–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x04000041.

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This essay is concerned with the history of wild animal training between the early nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries, specifically with circus acts involving ‘big cats’. The author, John Stokes, is sympathetic to the view that such performances are inhumane, degrading to animal and human alike, but rather than simply rehearsing familiar attitudes, he subjects the ‘big cat’ act to a performance analysis based on established criteria, in the belief that, if performance theory is to have the widespread application that its advocates claim, then it should be able to elucidate many different kinds of theatrical event. His primary materials are the myriad biographies and autobiographies of wild animal trainers that were produced during the heyday of their art, and which he finds to be frequently characterized by an unexpected thoughtfulness and breadth of experience, besides being highly informative about performance aesthetics. John Stokes is Professor of Modern British Literature in the Department of English, King's College London. He is a regular theatre reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and co-author, together with Michael R. Booth and Susan Bassnett, of Bernhardt, Terry, Duse: the Actress in Her Time (Cambridge, 1988) and Three Tragic Actresses (Cambridge, 1996).

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Akther, Shahin, Javed Tariq, and Nazrul Islam. "Measurement of the Effectiveness of Off-the-Job Training Methods in Commercial Banks of Bangladesh." International Journal of Business and Management 14, no. 9 (August 22, 2019): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v14n9p160.

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Banks and financial institutions of Bangladesh invest a large amount of money for training purposes in building and enhancing capacity of their human resources. But whether this investment is effective or not is a question often asked by the policymakers of these institutions. These institutions usually train their employees by using off-the-job training methods like seminars, workshops, lectures, etc. along with on-the-job training methods to improve the performance of the employees. A lion’s share of training budget is usually used for off-the-job training purposes that add value for the development of knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) of the employees’. But the effectiveness of these training methods is often questioned due to traditional lecture-based training sessions. To make the employees more attractive to training programs, interactive and value adding training methods can increase the effectiveness of the training. Hence, this paper aims at identifying the factors that can improve the effectiveness of the off-the-job training methods in commercial banks of Bangladesh. This study used both qualitative and quantitative research methods. A survey was conducted among the bank officers who received off-the-job training with structured questionnaire. A total of 300 bank officers at different levels of the banks were interviewed. Eight leading private and public commercial banks were included in the survey. Factor Analysis was used to identify the factors related to the effectiveness of off-the-job training methods while Multiple Regression was used to identify the relationships between the overall effectiveness of the training and the effectiveness factors related to off-the-job training. Results show that the effectiveness of the off-the-job training methods depends on four significant factors such as, acquiring knowledge and skills, logistics support, invitation of comments by the trainers and participation of the trainees, and participation of the trainees in Training Needs Assessment (TNA). This study suggests that off-the-job training methods can be made more effective by ensuring effective delivery of knowledge, providing proper logistics supports, engaging trainees in training sessions, and ensuring participation of the trainees in training need assessment processes of the banks.

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Wilson, Ann, and Clive J. C. Phillips. "Identification and Evaluation of African Lion (Panthera leo) Cub Welfare in Wildlife-Interaction Tourism." Animals 11, no. 9 (September 20, 2021): 2748. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11092748.

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African lion (Panthera leo) cubs are extensively used in South Africa in wildlife-interaction tourist activities. Facilities provide close interaction opportunities, but the welfare impacts on the cubs are unclear. A workshop was held with 15 lion-experienced stakeholders, including government officials, nature conservationists, animal welfare organisations, lion breeders, lion handlers, an animal ethologist, wildlife veterinarian, wildlife rehabilitation specialist and an animal rights advocacy group representative. Individual representatives nominated a range of welfare concerns, and 15 were identified for discussion and prioritisation. The leading welfare concern was a lack of governance and regulation within the industry. Participants agreed on nine non-negotiable practices affecting welfare concerns, which included ethical concerns, such as cubs exiting into the ranching industry (farming of lions for hunting) and the bone trade (lions being slaughtered for their bones, which are exported for lion bone wine) once petting age has passed. Welfare concerns representative of current management practices within the lion cub interaction industry were compared for importance using an online adaptive conjoint analysis survey of 60 stakeholders in the industry. The survey identified the most important welfare concerns to be poor social grouping of cubs, an inability for cubs to choose their own environment and retreat from a forced interaction, a lack of trained and dedicated caretakers, and poor breeding practices. The conjoint analysis survey results produced a value model, which can be used as a tool to score cubs’ welfare in interaction facilities, and it identified unacceptable practices lacking welfare consideration.

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Hermon, Glen Bennet, and Durgansh Sharma. "Unique Lion Identification Using Triplet Loss and Siamese Networks." Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle 34, no. 6 (December 31, 2020): 693–700. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ria.340603.

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Former techniques for the identification of lion individuals (Panthera leo) relied on manual methods of recording data. Such processes have various shortcomings due to the manual nature of recording this data. This research work aims to automate the process of encoding the uniqueness within the whisker spot patterns for each lion individual by non-invasively using photographs. Towards this research work the main bottleneck was the availability of image data for individual lions. The proposed model embeds the uniqueness within the patterns for a specific individual as a unique cluster within its embedding space. This is achieved by using a triplet loss function which, due to its one-shot learning nature trains a deep inception network with less training data. Photographic images are known to have variations in lighting, pose variation, angle variation and other inconsistencies. Since the nature of these issues are nonlinear, it is preferred to create the target model using deep learning techniques. An inception network is trained to generate 128-dimensional vectors unique to each lion. This research paper elaborates on such deep machine learning techniques and other processes that are used to create this model.

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Sharma, Pinki, Jyotsna Sengupta, and P. K. Suri. "WLI Fuzzy Clustering and Adaptive Lion Neural Network (ALNN) for Cloud Intrusion Detection." International Journal of Distributed Artificial Intelligence 11, no. 1 (January 2019): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijdai.2019010101.

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Cloud computing is the internet-based technique where the users utilize the online resources for computing services. The attacks or intrusion into the cloud service is the major issue in the cloud environment since it degrades performance. In this article, we propose an adaptive lion-based neural network (ALNN) to detect the intrusion behaviour. Initially, the cloud network has generated the clusters using a WLI fuzzy clustering mechanism. This mechanism obtains the different numbers of clusters in which the data objects are grouped together. Then, the clustered data is fed into the newly designed adaptive lion-based neural network. The proposed method is developed by the combination of Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm of neural network and adaptive lion algorithm where female lions are used to update the weight adaptively using lion optimization algorithm. Then, the proposed method is used to detect the malicious activity through training process. Thus, the different clustered data is given to the proposed ALNN model. Once the data is trained, then it needs to be aggregated. Subsequently, the aggregated data is fed into the proposed ALNN method where the intrusion behaviour is detected. Finally, the simulation results of the proposed method and performance is analysed through accuracy, false positive rate, and true positive rate. Thus, the proposed ALNN algorithm attains 96.46% accuracy which ensures better detection performance.

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Wilson, D. A. H. "Sea lions, greasepaint and the U-boat threat: Admiralty scientists turn to the music hall in 1916." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 55, no. 3 (September 22, 2001): 425–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2001.0156.

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Attempts sponsored by the Admiralty's Board of Invention and Research (BIR) to train sea lions as submarine trackers from November 1916 to mid–1917, when there was considerable concern about the depredations of U–boats, involved a unique collaboration between Fellows of The Royal Society and music-hall celebrities. The official establishment, with its scientific advisers and somewhat reluctant naval representatives, met the world of music hall and circus entertainment, when sea lion ‘captains’ were called upon to assist their counterparts in the Royal Navy. Admiralty documents in the Public Record Office indicate that in 1916 Professor W.H. Bragg, F.R.S. of Section II of the BIR had been approached by ‘Captain’ Joseph Woodward, a music–hall sea lion trainer, who recommended his animals as a possible solution to the U–boat menace. Woodward's recommendation was taken seriously, and he was in due course taken on by the BIR as a consultant, provider of sea lions and experimenting participant. Experiments and trials took place in public swimming baths in Glasgow and Westminster, at Lake Bala and finally on the Solent, under the general supervision of Dr E.J. Allen, F.R.S., Director of the Marine Biological Association laboratories in Plymouth, and with the regular participation of Sir Richard Paget, Secretary of Section II, and Woodward's brother, Captain Fred. At first the aim was to train muzzled animals prior to meals to ignore fish alongside them in a tank in favour of an artificial underwater sound, after a conditioned approach to which they would be rewarded with food. Training would then be transferred to open water, using a submarine as the sound and food source, which the animals might learn to follow without the distraction of fish or of sounds other than those associated with submarines. Woodward's work consisted of a successful application of the same principle of conditioned response which Pavlov made quantifiable in his dogs, and the trials themselves represented a very unusual alliance between science and the performing arts.

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Jørgensen, Aage. "Omkring Johannes V. Jensens himmerlandshistorie ”Wombwell”." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 45, no. 1 (April 1, 2015): 16–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2015-0002.

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Abstract This article discusses one of Johannes V. Jensens ”Himmerland Stories”, ”Wombwell”, which appeared in Nye Himmerlandshistorier in 1904, as well as some related texts. ”Wombwell” may be said to illustrate how the tradition-bound inhabitants of rural Himmerland experienced the hurried, violent modern world passing by in the shape of the well-known, world-famous English menagerie established in 1805 by George Wombwell, whose successors as a matter of fact toured in Northern Jutland in the summer of 1888. A major issue raised in the text is a longing Wombwell’s magnificent appearance inspires in the minds of three local youngsters, now wishing to escape from their familiar milieu. An equivalent longing motivates the hero’s departure from his childhood setting in popular tales in order to take possession of unknown parts of the outer (and inner) world. In Jensen’s story this aspect is represented by Miss Alice, the attractive lion trainer of the menagerie. Aspects like these are also unfolded in three other texts of Jensen to which ”Wombwell” is compared, ”Løverne” (“The Lions”), ”Circus Rieger” and ”Menageriet” (“The Menagerie”). These texts point to a major generic issue in Jensen’s Himmerland stories, in that he navigates along the borderline between childhood remembrance and fictional creation, or between description and narration. That borderline becomes blurred and even disappears since the process of remembrance turns out to be much more creative than simply reconstructive.

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Goh, C. "Developing Palliative Care in Low-Resource Countries in Asia." Journal of Global Oncology 4, Supplement 2 (October 1, 2018): 164s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.40400.

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Background and context: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) global atlas which maps palliative care needs worldwide, just over 50% of the palliative care needs reside in Asia. Development of palliative care services in Asia is patchy, with a few high income countries, such as Singapore and Japan, with palliative care services integrated into the health system. In the vast majority of countries, particularly low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), such services are lacking or only available in a few centers. Aim: To develop palliative care services in countries with no services. Strategy/Tactics: The Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) is a nongovernmental organization which supports the development of palliative care in the Asia Pacific region. Since 2012 , it has developed a comprehensive program to build capacity for palliative care in several countries in the region, including Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Program/Policy process: Coconceptualized and funded by the Lien Foundation, the APHN sends interdisciplinary teams of volunteer faculty to these countries to run a training of trainers program over a period of three years. Major tertiary institutions were chosen as partners, with the understanding that palliative care services would be set up once a team had been trained. An interdisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, social workers and pharmacists from each institution went through the training program together. Individuals with potential to become champions for palliative care in these countries were given further training through a clinical fellowship program at established institutions in the region. During the training participants would be expected to start palliative care services in their institutions, which will become training centers for palliative care in the future. Concomitantly, a program of advocacy for medications essential for palliative care, such as oral morphine, was also undertaken. Outcomes: Six modules of the training course were completed in each of the three countries. A corps of 20 to 30 master trainers completed the training. In each of those countries, one or more palliative care services were started in major tertiary teaching hospitals. Oral morphine availability was greatly enhanced. The master trainers organized training within their hospitals, and also for the public. Other outcomes include the recognition of palliative care as a specialty, the introduction of palliative care into undergraduate medical and nursing curricula, and development of postgraduate courses in palliative care. What was learned: It was important to target institutions which were willing establish palliative care services. An interdisciplinary group of faculty was able to teach and inspire the trainees to take up the discipline. A drug availability program was essential to provide the tools to work with.

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Hurley, Jenifer A., and Daniel P. Costa. "Standard metabolic rate at the surface and during trained submersions in adult California sea lions (Zalophus californianus)." Journal of Experimental Biology 204, no. 19 (October 1, 2001): 3273–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.204.19.3273.

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SUMMARY The metabolic rate (MR) of four adult California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), two males and two females, was quantified during trained submersion and stationing behavior in laboratory tanks. MR was measured, at rest and for single submersions of increasing duration (1–7 min), by measuring oxygen consumption using open-circuit, indirect calorimetry. Standard MR was measured under conditions defined for basal MR and was found to be 1.9 to 3 times that predicted for terrestrial animals of similar size. Submersion MRs were calculated from the post-submersion oxygen debt and declined to as little as 47 % of standard MR on the longest submersions. This hypometabolic response was proportional to the duration of submersion and was greatest for the maximum duration submersions. Short submersions produced MRs equivalent to measured standard MR. These data suggest that although California sea lions maintain an elevated metabolism under standard conditions, they are capable of reducing their metabolism in response to the needs of diving. Such metabolic flexibility enables sea lions to moderate their oxygen use during diving and to extend their aerobic diving capability.

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Kose, Utku. "An Ant-Lion Optimizer-Trained Artificial Neural Network System for Chaotic Electroencephalogram (EEG) Prediction." Applied Sciences 8, no. 9 (September 11, 2018): 1613. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app8091613.

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The prediction of future events based on available time series measurements is a relevant research area specifically for healthcare, such as prognostics and assessments of intervention applications. A measure of brain dynamics, electroencephalogram time series, are routinely analyzed to obtain information about current, as well as future, mental states, and to detect and diagnose diseases or environmental factors. Due to their chaotic nature, electroencephalogram time series require specialized techniques for effective prediction. The objective of this study was to introduce a hybrid system developed by artificial intelligence techniques to deal with electroencephalogram time series. Both artificial neural networks and the ant-lion optimizer, which is a recent intelligent optimization technique, were employed to comprehend the related system and perform some prediction applications over electroencephalogram time series. According to the obtained findings, the system can successfully predict the future states of target time series and it even outperforms some other hybrid artificial neural network-based systems and alternative time series prediction approaches from the literature.

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Books on the topic "Lion trainers"

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Zamba: The true story of the greatest lion that ever lived. New York: HarperPaperbacks, 2006.

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Smith, Raymond. Better one day as a lion. Dublin: Sporting Books Publishers, 1996.

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Better one day as a lion. Dublin: Sporting Press, 1996.

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Balkey, Rita. Midnight ecstasy. New York: Zebra Book, 1990.

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Living with big cats: The story of Jungle Larry, Safari Jane, and David Tetzlaff. Naples, Fla: IZS Books, 1995.

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Helfer, Ralph. Zamba. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

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Cong lian xi sheng dao yuan shi: Fang Jun zi shu = From a Trainee to an Academician : the Autobiography of Fang Jun. Changsha Shi: Hunan jiao yu chu ban she, 2012.

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Don, Failla, and Tang, Feida (guan li ke xue), eds. 45 miao jiang zuo " yong you ni de ren sheng ": Ru he " san nian ti zao tui xiu " cheng wei " sheng huo feng ge jiao lian "Lifestyle trainer = "The own your life " plan. [Tai bei shi]: Sheng ming zhi guang shen xin ling cheng zhang zhong xin, 2013.

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Peyton, Audrey. Fagan and Floyd. Xlibris Corporation, 2003.

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Peyton, Audrey. Fagan and Floyd. Xlibris Corporation, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Lion trainers"

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Gisiner, Robert, and Ronald J. Schusterman. "Combinatorial Relationships Learned by a Language-Trained Sea Lion." In Marine Mammal Sensory Systems, 643–62. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3406-8_40.

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Ruiwen, Chen. "The Social Contributions of a Chinese Anglican Woman Intellectual." In Christian Women in Chinese Society, 201–22. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455928.003.0010.

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The author’s great-grandmother, Zhan Aimei, was born into a peasant family in rural Fujian and educated by British missionaries, becoming a Christian teacher, wife and mother. The trajectory of her life provides rare insight into the fruits of Anglican missionary work from a Chinese perspective. Zhan Aimei married a missionary-trained doctor, Lin Dao’an, and had ten children, the oldest of whom, Lin Buji, studied in the United States and became dean of Christ Church Cathedral and president of Trinity College Fuzhou. The author uses documents, interviews and missionary accounts to recreate the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman.

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Guerin, Dava, and Terry Bivens. "Go West, Young Man." In The Eagle on My Arm, 56–67. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813180021.003.0009.

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In this chapter Patrick decides to move to Oregon with his wife, Janeas. He was working with Dave Siddon at the time with Dave’s company called, “Wildlife Images.” Patrick is hired to go around the country doing school programs as well as training wild animals for movies and television. He trains bears, mountain lions and other wildlife. This is the time that his son, Skyler was born. He moves with his wife to Oregon to continue doing the wildlife shows from there.

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Conference papers on the topic "Lion trainers"

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Yamany, Waleed, Alaa Tharwat, Mohammad F. Hassanin, Tarek Gaber, Aboul Ella Hassanien, and Tai-Hoon Kim. "A New Multi-layer Perceptrons Trainer Based on Ant Lion Optimization Algorithm." In 2015 Fourth International Conference on Information Science and Industrial Applications (ISI). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isi.2015.9.

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Hastie, G. D., D. A. S. Rosen, and A. W. Trites. "Studying diving energetics of trained Steller sea lions in the open ocean." In Sea Lions of the World. Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4027/slw.2006.14.

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VITOR MOTA MOMBERG, JO�O, MARCOS KOODI ORITA, MATHEUS VINICIUS RODRIGUES DINIZ, JOS� ANTONIO CASTANHO ALMEIDA, and ANDRESSA SILV�RIO TERRA FRAN�A. "GYMAPP: APLICATIVO M�VEL PARA AUX�LIO DE ACADEMIAS E PERSONAL TRAINERS." In 15th CONTECSI International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management. TECSI, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5748/9788599693148-15contecsi/rex-5624.

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Miller, William H., David Jonassen, Rose Marra, Matthew Schmidt, Matthew Easter, Ioan Gelu Ionas, Gayla M. Neumeyer, Randy Etter, Bruce Meffert, and Christopher C. Graham. "Radiation Protection Technician Two-Year Associates of Applied Science Curriculum for National Implementation." In 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone16-48952.

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The U.S. Department of Labor awarded a $2.3 million grant to the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) in 2006 in response to the need for well-trained Radiation Protection Technicians (RPTs). The RPT curriculum initiative resulted from significant collaborations facilitated by MU with community colleges, nuclear power plants, professional organizations, and other nuclear industry stakeholders. The objective of the DOL project is to help increase the pool of well-qualified RPTs to enter the nuclear workforce. Our work is designed to address the nuclear industry’s well-documented, increasingly significant need for RPTs. In response to this need, MU and AmerenUE’s Callaway Nuclear Power Plant first partnered with Linn State Technical College’s Advanced Technology Center (LSTC/ATC) to initiate a two-year RPT degree program. The success of this program (enrollments have been increasing over the past four years to a Fall 2007 enrollment of 23) enabled the successful proposal to the DOL to expand this program nationwide. DOL participants include the following partners: Linn State Technical College with AmerenUE – Callaway; Central Virginia Community College with AREVA; Estrella Mountain Community College with Arizona Public Service – Palo Verde; MiraCosta Community College with Southern California Edison – San Onofre; and Hill College with Texas Utilities – Comanche Peak. The new DOL grant has allowed redevelopment of the LSTC/ATC curriculum using a web-based, scenario driven format, benchmarked against industry training standards. This curriculum will be disseminated to all partners. Integral in this curriculum is a paid, three to four month internship at a nuclear facility. Two of the six new RPT courses have been developed as of the end of 2007. Four of five partner schools are accepting students into this new program starting in the winter 2008 term. We expect that these institutions will graduate 100 new RPTs per year to help alleviate the personnel shortage in this critical area of need.

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Corsini, Alessandro, Giovanni Delibra, Anthony G. Sheard, and David Volponi. "Unsteady Pressure Interaction of an Axial Flow Fan With a Stabilization Ring in Tunnel and Metro Applications." In ASME Turbo Expo 2015: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2015-42170.

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Ventilation fans operating in underground metropolitan tunnels are subjected to abrupt changes in operations due to the pressure wavefronts generated by the passage of the trains, and the magnitude of these pressure waves is increasing due to increasing speed of passing trains in modern mass transport systems. To avoid fans being driven into stall designers can fit fans with a stabilisation ring, i.e. a casing treatment that was found to mitigate the mechanical consequences of being inadvertedly driven into stall due to pressure pulses. A stabilisation ring is a circumferential cavity in the casing of the fan, placed upstream of the rotor in order to allow the fluid to recirculate in stalled operations. A series of fins inside this cavity is used in order to drive the recirculating fluid back into the blade vane with a proper alignment with the leading edge of the rotor. Following a previous RANS investigation that lead to the conclusion that the drive mechanism of the stabilisation ring onto the fan is based on azimuthal pressure unbalance we present here a U-RANS investigation aiming at understanding the dynamics of the interaction of the anti-stall ring with the fan and to provide insight on possible development of the geometry of the casing treatment. The fan selected for this study is a real fan for tunnel and metro applications (9 rotor blades, 1490 rpm) with a real-geometry stabilisation ring (27 fins). Computations account for different operating points (peak efficiency, design point, peak pressure and stalled operations) and rely on the low-Reynolds cubic k-ε model of Lien et al. All the simulations were carried out with the open-source OpenFOAM code. Results were validated against available experimental data and then analysed to understand the unsteady interaction between the rotor of the fan and the cavity of the stabilisation ring.

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