Working with SportsSense, which entered an official partnership with the Marlins, profiles were created for each interested player based on information derived from their tendencies — chase rate, contact rate in the strike zone, etc. Dillon took that data and built specific drills based on the findings on a trial-and-error basis to improve their cognitive skills.
On Saturday, in the thin strip of Russian territory that was a rear staging area for Soviet military support for North Korea in the Korean War, border troops and civil defense officials are to conduct drills based on the premise that huge North Korean refugee flows could start as a result of a new war on the Korean peninsula or by the collapse of the government of Kim Jong Il.
Nickerson, who is now an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, helped develop a guide for the National Association of School Psychologists on conducting crisis drills based on her research (one big no-no: Staff and students must never be tricked into believing the drill is real).
To prepare for mass casualties, the medical examiner's office takes part in drills based on simulated plane crashes and attacks with biological weapons.
"People drill based on the outlook for prices," said Britt Dearman, a special projects executive at the Apache Corporation, an oil and gas company based in Houston.
The machining mechanism of drilling based on the fracture mechanics concept is analyzed, and a new theoretical model of the material removal rate is proposed.
The BIM was used to provide real-time feedback to the drill operator about whether it is safe to continue drilling based on the position and orientation of the drill.
Considering the boundary condition and simulant density difference among these four parts, a drill-simulant interaction model is developed to predict the drilling load during simulant drilling, based on the screw conveying and the passive earth pressure theory.
In October, that plant became the first in the country to hold an emergency drill based on a hypothetical terrorist attack rather than an accident.
The brief window for drilling, based on ice floes and agreements with Alaska Natives to protect whales and other wildlife, opens in July and continues into October.
